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The underground fire is estimated to be at a depth of around 30 m (100 ft). [5] It is estimated that the fire has burned for approximately 6,000 years and is the oldest known coal fire. [6] European explorers and settlers to the area believed the smoke, coming from the ground, was volcanic in origin. [5]
A coal seam-fueled eternal flame in Australia known as "Burning Mountain" is claimed to be the world's longest burning fire, at 6,000 years old. [42] A coal mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. A coal field fire in Jharia, Jharkhand, India, is known to have been burning for almost a century.
This is a list of major bushfires in Australia. The list contains individual bushfires and bushfire seasons that have resulted in fatalities, or bushfires that have burned in excess of 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres), or was significant for its damage to particular Australian landmarks.
1 farmer killed and two firefighters injured on 1 November while fighting a fire about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Adelaide at Nantawarra, South Australia. The fire burnt out about 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres) of grassland [32] 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires, South Australia: 32 houses lost, 125 outbuildings [33] [34]
According to Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters), fire is one of the most important forces at work in the Australian environment.Some plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms to survive or even require bushfires (possessing epicormic shoots or lignotubers that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds), or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in ...
1907–1908 Australian heat wave: 246 There were 105 deaths in South Australia alone (between 7 December 1907 and 8 February 1908). [12] 1909 Flood: 1909 Western Victorian floods: 4 1909–1910 Heat wave: 1909–1910 Australian heat wave: 109 1909 Dec – 1910 Feb [13] 1911 Cyclone: Sinking of the SS Yongala [14] 122 SS Yongala [14]
The Mount Lubra bushfire, also called the Mount Warrinaburb bushfire, was a bushfire, started by a lightning strike, that burnt approximately 184,000 hectares (450,000 acres) from late on 19 January 2006 until mid-February 2006 near The Grampians in, Victoria, Australia. The fire burned, in difficult terrain, throughout 20–21 January without ...
The Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria) in Australia, on 6 February 1851, burning up 5 million hectares (12 million acres; 50,000 square kilometres; 19,000 square miles), or about a quarter of the state's area.