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Eyre Peninsula Bushfire Fieldwork - 10 January 2005

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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The Eyre Peninsula bushfires began on January 10, 2005. The fires were contained by emergency services, but weather conditions helped push the fires through containment lines on January 11. Wind speeds were 70 km/h and temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. More than 145,000 hectares of land burnt. Forty-eight thousand hectares were around the townships of Wangary, Wanilla, North Shield, Pooinindie, Louth Bay, Greenpatch and Yallunda Flat near Port Lincoln.

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Title Eyre Peninsula Bushfire Fieldwork - 10 January 2005
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6ceba2b0-eb5c-435e-ae1f-6bf8b0be692f
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Eyre Peninsula Bushfire Fieldwork - 10 January 2005". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/eyre-peninsula-bushfire-fieldwork-10-january-2005