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Queensland authorities said major flooding was underway in some suburbs of Cairns, a tourist hub of around 170,000 people located around 1,700 km (1,060 miles) north of state capital Brisbane.
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[1]: 7.34 The 2011 Brisbane Flood Flag Map indicates that areas adjacent to the Corinda landslip are prone to flooding in the future, [5] and the CSIRO has warned that, with global warming, extreme weather events such as the rainfall event which triggered the 1974 Corinda landslip are likely to become more frequent. [6]
Rainfall of over 400 millimetres (16 in) was recorded across the Northern Brisbane area. [16] In the three days to 28 February, Northern Brisbane received 676.8 millimetres (26.65 in) of rainfall, the largest three, and seven, day total ever recorded in Brisbane. [17]
Parts of Yeronga were inundated during Brisbane's 2011 floods. [23] [24]The major flood events of the Brisbane River in 1887, 1890, 1893, 1907 and 1931 [25] are not recorded as causing significant damage to Yeronga (the flood-prone areas of which were not extensively developed at those times), but the 1974 and 2011 floods caused extensive damage to many of the properties adjacent to the river ...
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Dairying became common in the area during the 1890s. The 1893 Brisbane flood halted housing construction in the lower parts of Oxley for many years. [18] William Brittain moved his brick making operations to a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) site on Douglas Street in 1899. [18] In 1879, the local government area of Yeerongpilly Division was created. In ...
The effect of flooding on the Brisbane Markets was minor in 1974 but since then the site has grown five times and in 2011 35 buildings were inundated. [36] After the 2011 flood, home and land values in the suburb decreased dramatically. The median house price decreased by 23.9%. [51]