| Eyre Peninsula "Black Tuesday" (or Wangary) bushfire, 2005 | |
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_inquest_-_--_map_of_fire_scour_boundary.jpg) The fire scour boundary as of 13 January 2005 (pink area: the fire spread 40 kilometres (25 mi) eastwards from the point of ignition) | |
| Date(s) | 10 January 2005 – 20 January 2005 |
| Location | Lower Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°26′55″S 135°52′35″E / 34.448657°S 135.876409°E |
| Statistics[1][note 1] | |
| Burned area | 77,964 hectares (192,650 acres) |
| Land use | Farming (wheat, sheep) and residential |
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| Ignition | |
| Cause | Hot vehicle exhaust particle(s) ignited dry vegetation at roadside |
| Map | |
  Location in South Australia | |
The Eyre Peninsula bushfire of 2005, an event also known locally as Black Tuesday[2] and by South Australian Government agencies as the Wangary bushfire,[3] was a bushfire that occurred during January 2005 on the lower part of the Eyre Peninsula, a significant part of South Australia's wheat belt, where most of the land is either cropped or grazed.[4] The fire resulted in 780 square kilometres (301 sq mi) of land being burnt, the loss of nine lives, injury to another 115 people, and huge property damage. It was South Australia's worst bushfire since the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983. Heat from the fire reached 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), with speeds up to 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph).[5]
- ^ Inquest into the Deaths of Star Ellen Borlase, Jack Morley Borlase, Helen Kald Castle, Judith Maud Griffith, Jody Maria Kay, Graham Joseph Russell, Zoe Russell-Kay, Trent Alan Murnane and Neil George Richardson (PDF). Adelaide: Courts Administration Authority of South Australia. 18 December 2007. pp. iii, iv, 113. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2017.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Keane, Daniel; Doran, Matthew (10 January 2015). "Black Tuesday bushfire: Eyre Peninsula community remembers fire a decade later". ABC News. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Wangary Bushfires". South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Sexton, Mike (18 December 2007). "Fire inquest reveals litany of blunders". The 7.30 Report (ABC). Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ "South Australia, January 2005: Bushfire - Eyre Peninsula". Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
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