text: **E. CYCLONE MOORINGS.**
  
  The extent of the cyclone problem in Australia’s north and north west was emphasised when 
  
  Cyclone Tracey struck Darwin in 1974. The most powerful cyclone to cross the Australian coast 
  
  was Cyclone Vance in 1999, which passed near Dampier, destroying large parts of the towns of 
  
  Onslow and Exmouth further to the south. 