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Neve Brissenden and Rachael Ward

Remote residents trapped as Cyclone Megan crosses coast

Groote Eylandt copped almost 600 millimetres of rain over the weekend as a cyclone hits the NT. (HANDOUT/GROOTE EYLANDT & BICKERTON ISLAND ENTERPRISES)

Residents in remote Northern Territory communities are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Megan after evacuation plans were called off because of dangerous weather.

Some 700 residents in the community of Borroloola, inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria in the NT, were meant to leave the area on Monday afternoon but RAAF aircraft have been unable to land.

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