page_title: List of wettest tropical cyclones by country
section_title: Christmas Island
hierarchical_section_title: List of wettest tropical cyclones by country / Australia / Christmas Island
caption_attribution_description: English: Severe Tropical Cyclone Gillian on March 22, 2014
context_page_description: This is a list of wettest tropical cyclones by country, using all known available sources. Data is most complete for Australia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, Micronesia's Yap and Chuuk, and the United States, with fragmentary data available for other countries. The French region of Réunion holds several world records for tropical cyclone and worldwide rainfall, due to the rough topography and its location in the Indian Ocean.
  Below are the records for each country above.
context_section_description: Christmas Island is an Australian territory located in the Indian Ocean located at the summit of a submarine mountain, which rises steeply to a central plateau that is dominated by stands of rainforest. After rainfall and wind observations started on the island during 1972, only 13 tropical cyclones passed within 220 km (135 mi) of the territory between 1972 and 2005.
caption: Cyclone Gillian
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