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TROPICAL CYCLONE NAMES
Introduction
This page provides a listing of names that are used for tropical cyclones in the Australian Region. There are three lists of names that are used by the Bureau of Meteorology; one for each of the three Australian Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWC) in Perth, Darwin and Brisbane. Information on the zones of responsibility can be found here.
The name of a new tropical cyclone is usually selected from the list of names of the TCWC responsible for the area in which it first became a cyclone. If a cyclone moves into another TCWC's area of responsibility, its name is retained. Similarly, if a named cyclone moves into the Australian region from another country's zone of responsibility, the name assigned by that other country will be retained. The names are normaly chosen in sequence, when the list is exhausted, we return the the start of the list.
Names
First names for the 2005-06 season are highlighted in green
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