AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 4 June 2011 | Views [875]
The opposite view from Mt. Lofty, looking east. Most of this and more was burned in the Ash Wednesday fires in February, 1983, which was the worst bushfire in Australia until the Black Saturday bushfires near Melbourne in 2009. The fire spread over Mt. Lofty and in 12 hours burned over 2,000 square kilometres of land. 3,700 buildings were damaged or destroyed, at the cost of the equivalent of A$1.3 billion.
