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The estimated number of people coming into Cairns for the eclipse is
somewhere between 35,000 and 60,000.
Based on the number of beds and occupancy rates, estimates made last month by
The Courier-Mail were that there would be an influx of 50,000.
Four charter flights are coming in from Japan alone.
Cairns itself has a population of around 152,000. Many undoubtedly won't
miss the opportunity and will rise early before work to see the eclipse. Even if a small
fraction of the local population get mobile on the morning, it is a sizable number
of people in total.
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