Darwin, Australia
Cyclone City, Croc Capital
"Rebuilt Thrice, Sweating Always"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield divided by a corrugated iron roof motif, bearing a rebuilt weatherboard house rampant, flanked by two saltwater crocodiles regardant, beneath a swirling cyclone crest, with the motto banner reading 'We Rebuilt It Anyway' in humid gold lettering.
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Visited Darwin in the Build-Up season and nearly melted into the pavement outside the Mindil Beach markets. The Museum and Art Gallery's cyclone tracking display is genuinely fascinating, mostly because you realise the whole city has been flattened and rebuilt more times than a Jenga tower. Sunset at the Waterfront is stunning but you will be sharing it with approximately one million mosquitoes. Loved the laid-back vibe, docked a star because my hire car's aircon died and I nearly became a cautionary tale."— Fiona McPhee, Melbourne
Property Listing
Charming tropical capital offering year-round warmth, stunning waterfront sunsets, and a thrilling sense of unpredictability that keeps insurance brokers on speed dial! This vibrant, resilient city boasts unbeatable proximity to Kakadu, a buzzing multicultural food scene, and character homes built to modern cyclone code because, let's be honest, they had to be.
Twinned With
Pompeii — Both are famous for getting comprehensively destroyed by natural forces and rebuilding anyway, just with more crocodiles in one.
Supporting Evidence
Darwin has been almost entirely destroyed and rebuilt multiple times, most famously by Japanese bombing raids in 1942 and then Cyclone Tracy in 1974, which flattened around 70% of the city on Christmas Eve.