SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian city of Darwin’s international airport remained shuttered on Sunday after a tropical cyclone brought destructive winds to the Northern Territory capital overnight.

Fina, a category three cyclone, was on Sunday clocking wind gusts of up to 205kph (127mph) as it moved away from Northern Territory capital Darwin after passing the city late on Saturday as a “severe tropical cyclone”, the nation’s Bureau of Meteorology said.

For residents of Darwin, population of around 140,000, Fina conjured painful memories of Cyclone Tracy, which wiped out much of the city on Christmas Day 1974, killing 66 people, in what was one of Australia’s worst natural disasters.

Darwin International Airport, which closed on Saturday as a precaution over Fina, said on Sunday it was “

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