Images & Animations Black Summer Hotspots: Bushfire erupts through national parkland

DEA Hotspots - 2020 - Namadgi National Park, ACT

Published:11 May 2023

Animation of DEA Hotspots data for Orroral Valley fire that swept through biushland on 27 January, 2020 and destroyed 80% of the Namadgi National Park, the parkland itself making up nearly half of the entire ACT's land area.

Animation of DEA Hotspots data for Orroral Valley fire that swept through biushland on 27 January, 2020 and destroyed 80% of the Namadgi National Park, the parkland itself making up nearly half of the entire ACT's land area.

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2015. Input data from Himawari-8 courtesy of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/55ECC900C9DAF

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