The Red Tuesday bushfires occurred on 1 February 1898 in

South Gippsland South Gippsland, a region of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, is a well-watered region consisting of low, rolling hills descending to the coast in the south and the Latrobe Valley in the north. It is part of the larger Gippsland Basin bioreg ...

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. The

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claimed 12 lives, destroyed over 2,000 buildings, and affected about 15,000 people, leaving 2,500 homeless. A total area of of bushland and farmland was destroyed by the fires.

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State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide
Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Red Tuesday fires. {{Bushfires in Australia 1898 in Australia 1898 disasters in Oceania 1898 fires 19th-century fires in Oceania Bushfires in Victoria (state) 1890s in Victoria (state) 19th-century wildfires 1898 natural disasters February 1898 Gippsland (region)