Hi and thank you for your question.
The Ash Wednesday fires consisted of some of the most devastating
bushfires Australia has ever experienced, sweeping through parts of
Victoria and South Australia.
“Around 180 bushfires broke out on 16 February 1983, known as Ash
Wednesday. The largest bushfires started in Victoria at Cudgee and
Branxholme (near Warrnambool), around Mount Macedon, in the Dandenong
Ranges - Cockatoo, Upper Beaconsfield and Belgrave Heights, Monivae,
Branxholme, Warburton and in the Otways. Fires also broke out in South
Australia, where 159,000 hectares of land in the Adelaide Hills and in
farming country in the south-east of the State were burnt in the
fires.”
Source: Country Fire Authority Website
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/info_ash.htm
This map of Victoria shows where the major bushfires broke out on Ash
Wednesday.
Source: Country Fire Authority Website
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/info_ash.htm
Location Map and Approximate Extent of the Ash Wednesday Bushfires
Source: The Australian National University Website
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/IUFRO/CONFLAG/ASHWED83/AW_map.gif
Otway Fire - Map
Source: The Australian National University Website
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/IUFRO/CONFLAG/ASHWED83/otway_f.GIF
Clay Wells Fire - Map
Source: The Australian National University Website
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/IUFRO/CONFLAG/ASHWED83/Clay_f.GIF
An animation of the development of the Otway fire
Source: The Australian National University Website
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/IUFRO/CONFLAG/ASHWED83/Otways.mov
Additional information that may interest you:
A CASE STUDY OF ASH WEDNESDAY, Feb 16, 1983
This document includes a number of meteorological maps.
The Australian National University Website
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/IUFRO/CONFLAG/ASHWED83/AWweath.HTM
Table: Area, Fire Size, Deaths and Buildings Lost.
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/4A25676D0022F2EE/BCView/FAAF080E6756F7904A25679300155B2B?OpenDocument
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I hope you find this helpful.
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