High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Severe Tropical Cyclone George (JTWC designation: 17S, also known as simply Cyclone George) was the third tropical cyclone to affect the Australian region and the first to affect Western Australia in 2007. The cyclone formed on 2 March in the Northern Territory`s Top End late in February, and intensified when it entered the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, before crossing the northern coast of the Kimberley. It moved over the Indian Ocean, intensifying to a Category 4 cyclone, and eventually crossed the Pilbara coast just east of Port Hedland at peak intensity. It caused significant damage to the town of Port Hedland and numerous isolated mining camps around the town. Insured damage totalled A$8 million (US$6.2 million 2007), and there were 3 fatalities.