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January 13, 2011
This photograph gives a birds eye view of the current floods in Queensland that are now impacting on Brisbane:
Tim Wimborne, Brisbane River, Reuters, 2011
At this stage the death toll now officially stands at 15, whilst the number of missing people is around 74. The flood levels peaked this morning lower than expected and below that of the1974 flood. For many people the flood's taken everything and they've got nothing left.
The riverside based Queensland Art Gallery, the renovated State Library next door and the adjacent performing arts centre are all flooded. You can see the extent of the flooding in the low-lying areas along the Brisbane River from this aerial picture:
Getty images
The devastating floods across much of northern and eastern Australia is a pattern typical of a strong La Niña event.
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