High-resolution images shot from a camera system mounted on planes focus in on the devastation
Striking new high-resolution pictures, taken before and after the flooding by an aerial camera system attached to planes, reveal some of the extensive damage.Images show the suburb of Albion, in Brisbane’s inner north-east, on 24 January and 2 March. The suburb is bounded by Breakfast Creek, a tributary of the Brisbane River. The multi-lane road shown is Sandgate Road, a major thoroughfare.Oxley, in Brisbane’s south-west, was also badly affected by the 2011 flood.
Lismore is built on the banks of the Wilsons River, which peaked at 14.4m on 28 February. The Lismore Memorial Baths were inundated.The lower image shows flooded houses in Girards Hill, a suburb of Lismore. The city is susceptible to floods, notably in 2017, 1974, and 1954.
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