AUSTRALIAN COASTLINE MINED DURING WW2
BY THE ALLIES, THE JAPANESE AND THE GERMANS

Controlled Mine Field Cairns Harbour

WWII Mines found off the Cairns Coast

Japanese Submarines Mine Australian Waters during WW2

German Raiders mine Australian Waters during WW2

German Mine found on Sunshine Beach, at Sunshine Coast, Qld during WW2

WW2 German Mine washed up on beach at Surfers Paradise, Qld

British Mine Layer HMS Atreus mines Moreton Bay ("Job Fifty-one")

Seaward Defences for Moreton Bay

HMAS Bungaree lays mines off the North Queensland Coast

Mining the Great Barrier Reef

Ships damaged or sunk by mines in Australian waters

Fishing Boat destroyed by a sea mine
at Rib Reef off Townsville on 24 Nov 1946

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This page first produced 10 December 2000

This page last updated 17 August 2022