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Cyclone Tracy is the only cyclone to have directly hit and damaged Darwin, to date. Many cyclones circulate in the waters east and west of Darwin each year. Only four have caused significant damage in and around Darwin, and these occurred in 1897 (when the city was still known as Palmerston); 1917; 1937; and 1974.

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The largest cyclone in the world was Typhoon Tip, which occurred in the western Pacific Ocean in October 1979. It had a diameter of over 2,200 kilometers (1,380 miles) and is considered the most intense tropical cyclone on record.

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The biggest cyclone in Darwin's history to date was Cyclone Tracy. Cyclone Tracy was a category 4 storm whilst still out at sea, but there is some evidence to suggest that it had reached category 5 status when it made landfall, on Christmas Day 1974. 65 people were "officially" killed (many more of the transients and indigenous people were killed), and 9,000 homes destroyed, out of a city of 43,500 people living in 12,000 residences

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The one that caused the tsunami in Thailand

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it was cyclone Tracy

i am so cool it was cyclone Tracy lol

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The deadliest cyclone in the world is the Great Bhola Cyclone.

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Darwin was not hit by a cyclone in 1989.

Darwin was flattened by Cyclone Tracy in 1974.

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Typhoon Tip was the largest Tropical cyclone ever

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The name of the cyclone that hit Darwin on Christmas was Cyclone Tracy.

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