Tunnels under Darwin

During the second world war, Darwin was the only Australian city bombed by the Japanese, and, after that shock, the authorities went about creating underground fuel storage tunnels to prevent further losses of the vital commodity. The network of tunnels is open to the public and we visited the steel-lined caverns. Max thought it great fun and came up looking a huge mess as he rubbed himself along the tunnel sides and jumped in the inevitable puddles.



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