2019 Daintree River flooding oral history project
Collection
Accession number
33023
Date
2019
Scope and content
Digital photographs, a map, a document titled 'Daintree River Flooding' and oral history recordings documenting the Daintree River flood of 2019. On Australia Day, 26 January 2019, a monsoon trough brought continuous heavy rain to the Daintree River area. The river flooded, then receded after breaking a 118-year floodwater record, leaving some Far North Queensland residents cut off. The flooding peaked at 12.6m close to midnight on Saturday, eclipsing the previous record of 12.4m in 1901 and higher than 10.5m at the last major flooding event in 2014.
System of arrangement
Arranged into 4 series
Description
14 audio files
Copyright status
In copyright.
Conditions of use
Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Preferred citation
33023, 2019 Daintree River flooding oral history project, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.