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Rh The following table gives the most important recent occurrences of these downpours in Queensland:—

These phenomenal rains are seen to be most abundant between Cairns and Cardwell. The great number recorded in the Brisbane district is largely due to the fact that here the rain-gauges are well distributed and fairly numerous, which is not the case in the less settled regions of Queensland.

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Perhaps the most striking region in Australia for examples of abnormal rainfall is in the far north-west in Western Australia (Fig. 90). Here the 10-in. annual isohyet passes near many stations which have recorded more than that amount in one rainstorm, though of course falls of this type are few and far between. Some of the heavier falls are given in this table, where a comparison with the average annual amount should be found of interest in many cases:—