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South Pacific
The following tropical cyclones occurred in the Southern Pacific Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone Cyril
23 to 26 November 1996

Tropical Cyclone Drena
3 to 10 January 1997

Tropical Cyclone Evan
10 to 16 January 1997

Tropical Cyclone Freda

 * Freda, 26 January to 2 February 1997

Tropical Cyclone Gavin

 * Gavin, 3 to 12 March 1997

Tropical Cyclone Hina

 * Hina, 13 to 18 March 1997

Tropical Cyclone Ian

 * Ian, 17 to 19 April 1997

Tropical Cyclone June

 * June, 2 to 5 May 1997

Tropical Cyclone Keli

 * Keli, 10 to 15 June 1997

Storm Names
South Pacific tropical cyclones are usually assigned names by the RSMC in Nadi, or Fiji Meteorological Service. As soon as a tropical depression becomes a tropical cyclone it is named by the warning centre having responsibility for it at that time. If a tropical depression becomes a tropical cyclone in the Wellington RSMC area of responsibility, MetService, in consultation with RSMC Nadi, will name the cyclone by using the next name from the list. Names in were unused, names in bold were used, and names in red and bold were retired.

Retirement
The names Drena, Gavin, and Hina were retired after this year. They were replaced with Daphne, Gerry, and Heley.