NT evacuees to head home after cyclone

MORE than 400 residents of Goulburn Island will return home on Wednesday for the second time in a month as Cyclone Nathan moves inland as a tropical low.

For the third time in two weeks Cyclone Nathan is set to cross the northern Australian coast.

GOULBURN Island residents will head home after being evacuated for the second time in a month as Cyclone Nathan loses power and moves inland as a tropical low.

THEY will be flown home on Wednesday, after assessment teams concluded there was minimal damage, and that water, power and sewerage are operational, NT Emergency Service director Andrew Warton said.