Red Tuesday bushfires

Red Tuesday bushfires
Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898 (John Longstaff)
Location	South Gippsland, Victoria
Statistics
Date(s)	1 February 1898
Burned area	260,000 hectares
Fatalities	12

The Red Tuesday bushfires took place on 1 February 1898 in South Gippsland, Victoria. The bushfires claimed 12 lives, destroyed over 2,000 buildings^[1] and affected about 15,000 people, leaving 2,500 homeless.^[2] A total area of 2,600 square kilometres (1,004 sq mi) of bushland and farmland was destroyed by the fires.^[3]

References

↑ "Major Bushfires in Victoria". Department of Sustainability and Environment. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
↑ "South Gippsland, Victoria: Bushfires". EMA Disasters Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
↑ "Bushfire history". Victoria State Government. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

External links

State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Red Tuesday fires.

Bushfires in Australia

Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (2003)

New South Wales	Seaham (1939) Chatsbury (1965) Eastern Seaboard (1994) Black Christmas (2001) / Warragamba (2001) Jail Break Inn (2006) Pulletop (2006) New South Wales (2013)

South Australia	Adelaide Hills (1939) Black Sunday (1955) Wandilo (1958) Ash Wednesday I (1980) Ash Wednesday II (1983) Eyre Peninsula (2005) Kangaroo Island (2007) Cherryville (2013) Sampson Flat (2015) Pinery (2015)

Tasmania	Black Tuesday (1967) Tasmania (2013) Tasmania (2016)

Victoria	Black Thursday (1851) Red Tuesday (1898) Black Sunday (1926) Black Friday (1939) WWII bushfires (1943–44) Ash Wednesday (1983) Linton (1998) Eastern Victorian alpine (2003) Mount Lubra (2006) Eastern Victoria Great Divide (2006–07) Black Saturday (2009) Great Ocean Road (2015–16)

Western Australia	Western Australia (1961) Western Australia (2015)

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