Australian Air Force Delivers Supplies to Cyclone Damaged Galiwinku

A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) plane landed in Darwin on Thursday, February 26, to deliver supplies for a 300-bed tent camp to be built in the cyclone-damaged community of Galiwinku, on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory. The C-17A Globemaster III touched down at Darwin’s RAAF Base from where the cargo will be delivered because Elcho Island’s airport cannot host the plane, which weighs 265,352 kilograms(585,001 pounds).

The category four-rated Cyclone Lam hit Elcho Island on February 20, bringing wind gusts of up to 260kph, leaving 61 homes uninhabitable, according to reports. Credit: Australian Government Department of Defence