Deadliest Disasters in Australian History

Can you name the top 21 disasters in Australian history by death toll?
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Date
Type
Death Toll
Answer
2020-2023
Pandemic
19,265
COVID-19
1918-20
Pandemic
12,000
1918 flu pandemic
1875-76
Epidemic
8,000
Scarlet fever
1951
Volcanic eruption
3,000
Eruption of Mount Lamington
1891-1910
Epidemic
2,000
Typhoid
1946-55
Epidemic
1,000
Polio
1789
Epidemic
750+
Smallpox
1867
Epidemic
748
Measles
1900-25
Epidemic
535
Bubonic plague
2019-20
Bushfires
479
Black Summer Bushfires
1938-39
Heat Wave
438
1938-1939 heatwave
1895-96
Heat Wave
437
1895-1896 heatwave
1899
Cyclone
410
Cyclone Mahina
1845
Shipwreck
406
Sinking of the Cataraqui
2009
Heatwave
374
2009 heatwave
1840-50
Massacre
300+
Gippsland massacres
1712
Shipwreck
286
Sinking of the Zuytdorp
1943
Shipwreck
268
Sinking of AHS Centaur
1907-08
Heat Wave
246
1907-1908 heatwave
1942
Air Raids
243
First Darwin Bombings
1944
Prison Break
235
Cowra breakout
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