Tiwi Islands
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The Tiwi Islands are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islan
Traditional burial poles, Tiwi Islands, 2005.
Sketch of Fort Dundas by John Septimus Roe in 1824
Nguiu Catholic church in 2005
The crashed Mitsubishi A6M Zero aircraft of Hajime Toyoshima on Melville Island
Hector (cloud)
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Hector is a cumulonimbus thundercloud cluster that forms regularly nearly every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia, from approximately September to March each year. H
Tiwi Islands
…the Tiwi people, dictating the food sources available and their ceremonial activities. Tiwi is subject to a recurring meteorological phenomenon, dubbed Hector, wherein a thunderstorm forms nearly every day from November to December and February through March. The storm is very powerful, going over 20 kilometres…
Hector viewed from Stokes Hill Wharf in Darwin looking northwest at a distance of approximately 80 km (50 mi)
Hector from Gunn Point, Northern Territory