NOTE: THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. FURTHER LINKS WILL BE ADDED SHORTLY. This page is a repository for images of the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap related to research on the base and its history. It is still under construction, and will be considerably expanded in the neat future. Wherever possible, the original source of images […]
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Felicity Ruby images of Pine Gap
We are grateful to Felicity Ruby who very generously gave us permission to reproduce her photographs of Pine Gap. Details of these images and information on the antennas in the photographs are available in Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson and Richard Tanter, The Antennas of Pine Gap, Nautilus Institute, Special Reports, 18 February 2016, and in the image gallery […]
Antennas of Pine Gap image gallery
This gallery holds links to all images reproduced in Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson and Richard Tanter, The Antennas of Pine Gap, Nautilus Institute, Special Reports, 18 February 2016. Cover – high resolution image. Details of the antennas are listed in Table 1 in that paper. The antennas identification system in Table 1 and in the images […]
Kristian Laemmle-Ruff images of Pine Gap
We are deeply grateful to Kristian Laemle-Ruff who very generously gave us permission to reproduce his photographs of Pine Gap. Details of these images and information on the antennas in the photographs are available in The Antennas of Pine Gap and in the image gallery from that paper. Note that the small spheres across the upper […]
US ship visits to Darwin
See also Darwin Port Log of US Navy ship visits to Darwin, 2000 – 2014 (updated 1 April 2014) US Marine Rotational Force – Darwin Introduction Australian navy and visiting foreign navy ships normally berth at Fort Hill Wharf or occasionally at East Arm Wharf. Log of US Navy ship visits to Darwin, 2000 – 2014 (updated 1 April […]
2 October 2014 Swan Island incursion
Introduction On 2 October 2014, eight protesters from the Swan Island peace Convergence entered the restricted area of Swan Island, in two parties of four. After some time one group was arrested by Victoria Police in the military/SASR part of the facility located near its northeast tip. These protesters did not resist arrest, and the arrests […]
RAAF Base Curtin
Introduction Location: 17°36’18.0″S 123°49’15.0″E (-17.605000, 123.820833) Wikimapia; Google Maps RAAF Base Curtin is an Air Force facility located on the northern coast of Western Australia 40 kilometers southeast from the town of Derby. It is a so-called “bare-base” airfield, meaning that the base is minimally maintained by No. 322 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron (322ECSS) on a caretaker […]
HMAS Stirling – STSS
Secret satellite mission by US military teams, Philip Dorling, The Age, 8 February 2011 In what was codenamed Project Crok, personnel from the USAF space test group/space test operations squadron were deployed from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico to HMAS Stirling south of Perth and Fort Direction near Hobart. The US teams worked […]
Fort Direction
Secret satellite mission by US military teams, Philip Dorling, The Age, 8 February 2011 In what was codenamed Project Crok, personnel from the USAF space test group/space test operations squadron were deployed from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico to HMAS Stirling south of Perth and Fort Direction near Hobart. The US teams […]
Modernised High Frequency Communications System – Riverina node
Introduction The Department of Defence has a cluster of communications facilities in the region of Wagga Wagga in the NSW Riverina, including the transmitter and receiver and elements of the Riverina node of the Modernised High Frequency Communications System (MHFCS), described by the local council as “home to some of the most advanced communication technology […]