What the records say
- When
- 13 Jan 1939
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 25.00° S, 133.00° E
- Description
- part of the 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Black Friday bushfires
Series of bushfires in Australia in 1939
The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were part of the 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia, which saw bushfires burning for the whole summer, and ash falling as far away as New Zealand.
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- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The bushfires of Black Friday kill 70 people in Victoria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei schweren Buschfeuern kommen im australischen Bundesstaat Victoria 71 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Victoria (Australia) suceden los incendios forestales del viernes Negro, el peor desastre natural en la historia de Australia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page