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Christmas eve and into Christmas day, the nation’s worst ever cyclone.

Three men are still missing in different parts of cyclone and flood-ravaged Queensland. (AAP) Source: AAP

Christmas eve and into Christmas day, the nation’s worst ever cyclone in terms of death and damage, killed 71 people and caused $837 million in damage 43 years ago.

In today’s dollars, the damage estimate is more than $7 billion.

TC Tracy flattened Darwin, destroying more than 70 per cent of the city’s buildings, including 80 per cent of its houses.