The Bathurst Bay Cyclone, also known as Tropical Cyclone Mahina, which struck Bathurst Bay, Australia on March 5, 1899, is generally credited with the world record for storm surge. The cyclone's storm ...
127 years ago today, the worst cyclone in Australia's history struck. A memorial to the catastrophe barely mentions its impact on First Nations people. In 1899 a devastating natural disaster caused ...
SEARCHERS found a forest of broken mastheads in Bathurst Bay, northeast of Cooktown, a week after Cyclone Mahina killed 285 pearling fleet divers and crew near Cape Melville on March 4, 1899. The ...
A SCIENTIST is unlocking the secrets of Australia’s deadliest natural disaster, a record-breaking cyclone you’ve probably never heard of that killed up to 410 people. The area, about half way between ...