This paper is based on 10 months of fieldwork in Kubulau district in Fiji before, during and after Cyclone Winston. It provides an ethnographic account of how this 'natural' disaster affected a community and the local CBNRM group. It looks at how this event was experienced and managed by ...
Tropical Cyclone Winston slammed into Fiji as the strongest such storm ever observed in the southern hemisphere, and one of the strongest in the world.
In 2016, tropical cyclone Winston, the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record, battered Fiji, killing 44 people.
For the South Pacific island nations like Fiji, the tropical cyclone season extends between Nov. 1 and April 30 each year and the peak period for cyclone is usually from January to March. During this season, Fiji has been hit by several tropical cyclones. In 2016, tropical cyclone Winston, ...
Cyclone Winston Fiji, particularly the Ra Province, got hammered by the second largest storm recorded in history: Cyclone Winston. Unlike the in movie starring Tom Hanks, ‘Castaway’, Winston was no friend – it was a cyclone with winds in excess of 375km/h, which arrived, left, and the...
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Yasa is the fifth storm worldwide to reach category 5 strength in 2020 and the second to do so in the South Pacific. (Tropical Cyclone Harold hit Vanuatu in April.) Only one previous category 5 storm on record has made landfall in Fiji: Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016. ...
Fiji Cyclone damage bill tops FJD$85 million On the 20th February 2016, Category 5 Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston (TC Winston) made landfall in Fiji, causing widespread building and infrastructure da... AB Corporation 被引量: 0发表: 0年 ...
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