Discussion

Other contemporary accounts place the surge at 14.6 m (almost 48 ft). Fish and dolphins were reported found on top of 15 m cliffs.

References:

Whittingham; H.E.; 1958: "The Bathurst Bay Hurricane and associated storm surge" Aust. Met. Mag.; 23:14-36. Nott J.; Green C.; Townsend I. and J. Callaghan; 2013: "The world record storm surge and the most intense Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone - New Evidence and Modeling" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00233.1

Highest Storm Surge

13 m (42')

Record date/period

5-Mar-1899

Geospatial Location

Bathurst Bay; Queensland; Australia [14°15'S; 144°23'E] with Tropical Cyclone Mahina