Military Airfields in Australia and the western Pacific area during World War 2

MILITARY AIRFIELDS
IN AUSTRALIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC AREA
DURING WORLD WAR 2

visits since 12 March 1999

At the end of WW2, the Royal Australian Air Force had 317 mainland and regional airfields that it controlled. Within a short period of time the greater majority of these airfields were disposed of. The following existing or potential airfields were retained:-

Amberley	Butterworth	Canberra *
Cocos Island	East Sale	Momote
Darwin	Laverton *	Learmonth
Pearce	Port Moresby *	Richmond
Schofields *	Townsville	Williamtown

* lower priority sites

NOTE:- The brownish coloured maps that you can view below, are from a map lent to me by Daniel Hultgren. The map is titled as follows:-

WESTERN PACIFIC

PLOTTING MAP

MERCATOR PROJECTION

COMPILED AND DRAWN BY R.A.A.F. CARTOGRAPHIC SECTION

SCALE 130 STAT. MILES to 1 INCH AT 10º

NATURAL SCALE 1: 8,236,800

AERODROMES

E-MAILS FROM VISITORS TO THIS SITE

Click on any of the thumbnail pictures below
to see a larger version of the map.

Civil Construction Corps

Were there as many as 5 Japanese bush airfields
in Australia during WW2?

Mobile Naval Operating Air Bases
in Australia and The Western Pacific

Demolition of our harbours and airfields

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Fairbairn
near Canberra

QUEENSLAND

Northern Queensland

Southern Queensland

Aitkenvale Weir	Antil Plains	Amberley	Archerfield
Augustus Downs	Balfe's Creek	Barcaldine	Beenleigh
Blackall	Bohle River	Bowen	Breddan
Brunette Downs	Brymaroo	Bundaberg	Cairns
Camooweal	Canobie Station	Carpentaria Downs	Cecil Plains
Charleville	Charters Towers	Cloncurry	Coen
Colmslie Flying Boat Base, Naval Air Station, Brisbane, US Navy (Brisbane)	Condamine	Cooktown	Coominya
Cunnamulla	Dunk Island	Eagle Farm	Elliot
Fanning	Gailes	Garbutt	Giru
Goolman	Hamilton Flying Boat Base (Brisbane)	Higgins Field, Red Island Point, Red Point (Jacky Jacky or Bamaga)	Horn Island (Nurapai)
Inverleigh	Iron Range (Claudie & Gordon)	Jondaryan	Karumba (Flying Boats)
Kingaroy	Kingston (sometimes called Woodridge)	Lappa Junction	Laura
Leyburn	Loganlea	Longreach	Lowood
Mackay	Macrossan	Mareeba	Maryborough
Milgarra station	Mt Hedlow	Mitchell River Mission	Mornington Island (adjacent to RAAF Radar Station No. 313)
Mount Isa	Mount St. John (Townsville)	Mount Surprise	Normanton
Oakey	Palm Island US Naval Air Station	Petrie	Powlathunga
Redland Bay Flying Boat Base	Reid River	Rockhampton	Rosewood
Ross River	Runcorn (ELG)	Southport Waterfield	Strathglass (partly completed at Prairie)
Strathpine	Stock Route	Toogoolawah (now Watts Bridge airfield)	Toowoomba
Torrens Creek	Townsville Flying Boat Base	Upper Ross River (Kelso Field)	Warrill Creek (Also known as Warwick Road, Mutdapilly of 10 Mile Swamp)
Waterford	Winton	Wivenhoe	Wondoola Station
Woodstock near today's Donnington Airpark	Wrotham Park

NEW SOUTH WALES

Albury	Albion Park	Allandale	Armidale
Bankstown	Bargo	Belfrayden	Blowclear
Bourke North	Bradley Field	Bringelly	Broke
Broken Hill South	Brolgan	Buckwoodlands	Bulga
Bundidjarie	Burroway	Calala	Calwalla
Camden	Castlereagh	Cessnock	Clairville North
Cobar	Coffs Harbour	Combaning	Cootamundra
Cordeaux	Corowa	Copper Ridge	Cudjello
Dandaloo	Deniliquin	Denison	Dry Forest
Dubbo	Dungog	Evans Head	Fish River
Fleur	Forest Hill near Wagga	Gidley	Glen Innes
Glendon	Gobbabaula	Goobang East	Goulburn
Grong Grong Road (satellite field near Narrandera)	Guyra	Hexham ELG	Hopefield
Hotham	Hoxton Park (20 miles west Bankstown)	Iowa	Jervis Bay
Jones	Junee Road	Kendalls	Lake Albert
Lake Cargellico	Lake Coolah	Lake Victoria	Leetham Field
Lithgow	Marsden Park	Mascot	Menangle
Millthorpe	Minore	Mittagong	Mogriguy
Moroco	Moruya	Moss Vale	Mudgee
Mt Druitt	Nabiac	Narrandera	Narromine
Nepean Dam	Newcastle	North Bourke	Nowra
Orange	Parkes	Piggot	Pitt Town
Pokolbin	Pucawan	Raglan	Rathmines
Ravenswood	Richmond	Ringwood	Rose Bay Flying Boat Base
Roto	Schofields	Scone	Spring Creek Reservoir
St. Georges Basin Flying Boats near Jervis Bay	Strowan	Stud Park	Tamworth
Temora	The Oaks	Tichbourne	Timbrebongie
Tocumwal "McIntyre Field"	Tootool	Trangie	Trescowthick
Triamble (Wing V?)	Tuggerah	Uranquinty	Vineyards
Wagga Road	Wagga Wagga	Wait O While	Wallgrove (near Doonside)
Wandook	Wangonilla	Warbreccan	Warkworth
Wellingrove	Wentworth	Williamtown	Woodlands
Woy Woy (Satellite of Schofields)	Yarragundry	Young Road

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Fighter Guide Map No. 1 b
Darwin Area
This is a large file

Adelaide River E.L.G.	Adelaide River No. 3 (Brooks)	Alice Springs	Austin
Batchelor	Bathurst Island	Berry Springs?	Birdum
Blyth No. 1 E.L.G.	Brunette Downs	Coomalie Creek	Cape Fourcroy
Daly Waters	Darwin (RAAF)	Darwin Civil airfield at Parap	Doctor's Gully (Darwin - Flying Boat Base)
Fenton (Brock's Creek)	George Yard ELG (Landing Ground No. 341)	Gill Creek ELG (Landing Ground No. 337)	Gove
Gorrie	Gould (near Batchelor)	Groote Eylandt	Hughes 32 Mile Field near Noonaman
Katherine	Koolpinyah H.S. E.L.G.	Limestone ELG (Landing Ground No. 414)	Livingstone 34 Mile Field - near Humpty Doo
Long	Manbulloo	MacDonald	Maranboy E.L.G.
Mathison ELG (Landing Ground No. 343)	Melville Bay airfield	Melville Bay Flying Boat Base (Watson's Bay)	Millingimbi
Nelly Waterhole ELG (Landing Ground No. 414)	O'Connor's Field (Howard Island)	Oenpelli E.L.G. near Alligator River	Pell (65 Mile)
Pine Creek	Port Keats	Reynolds No. 4 E.L.G.	Sattler (20 Mile)
Snake Bay airfield Melville Island	Strauss (27 Mile)	Tennant Creek	Tindal Also known as Carson's Field
Tipperary No. 9 E.L.G.	Vaughan Springs Civil Relief Landing Ground	Venn originally Wilson Airfield (south east of Katherine)	Victoria River Civil Relief Landing Ground
Willing	Woolyanna No. 8 B E.L.G.

Another Military map of the Northern Territory
showing various military establishments

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Ceduna	Gawler	Kingscote	Mallala
Mt. Gambier	Myponga	Oodnadatta	Parafield
Port Lincoln	Port Pirie	Tintinara	Virginia Relief Landing Ground, near Parafield

TASMANIA AND BASS STRAIT ISLANDS

Auburn (Surveyed only)	Cambridge	Currie	Nile Relief Landing Ground 7.5miles south of Western Junction
Pats River	Quorn Hall	Tunbridge	Valley Field (or Valleyfield)
Western Junction (now Launceston civil airfield)

VICTORIA

Ararat	Bacchus Marsh Satellite for Laverton	Bairnsdale	Ballarat
Benalla	Craigeburn	Cressy	East Sale
East Stratford	Essendon	Exford (Dispersal Field for Laverton)	Fishermen's Bend
Flynn's Creek	Gifford	Glengarry	Greenhills (Packenham)
Heath Hill	Lake Boga Flying Boat Base	Laverton	Mallacoota
Mangalore West	Maryvale	Monomeith Park (Koo-wee-rup)	Mildura
Mordialloc (VAOC emergency landing strip)	Murchison East	Nambrok	Nhill
Oaklands	Point Cook	Truganina (Dispersal Field for Laverton)	Swan Hill
Warrnambool	Werribee	West Sale	Wilson's Promontory
Wooloomanata

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Southern half

Northern half

Far northern section

North west section

Ajana Satellite for Geraldton	Albany	Anna Plains (US controlled)	Beverley Satellite for Middle Swan
Bindoon Satellite for Middle Swan	Broome	Bunbury	Busselton
Campbell	Cape Leveque	Carnarvon	Cue
Corunna Downs	Crawley (or Pelican Point near Perth) (Flying boats)	Cunderdin	Derby
Dowerin South	Drysdale Mission	Esperance	Exmouth Gulf
Exmouth Gulf No. 2	Forrest	Geraldton	Gin Gin North Satellite for Middle Swan
Goomalling	Guildford (Now Perth Airport)	Hillman	Kalgoorlie
Kununoppin	Learmonth (Exmouth in the Potshot area)	Maylands	Meckering Satellite for Pearce
Meekatharra	Merredin ELG	Middle Swan (Caversham)	Minderoo
Mooliabeenee Satellite for Middle Swan	Moora	Muchea East Satellite for Pearce	Narrogin East
Narrogin West	Nookanbah (or Noonkanbah) (Near Fitzroy Crossing)	North West Cape	Onslow
Pearce	Perth	Pinjarra North	Port Headland
Rockwell	Roebourne	Three Springs	Truscott
Upper Swan Satellite for Guildford	Wagin	Wyndham	Yalgoo
Yampi Sound (Flying Boats)	Yanrey

AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES

Norfolk Island

REST OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC AREA

NEW HEBRIDES (Now Vanuatu)

Port Vila
(RAAF Catalina base)

ESPIRITU SANTO

Bomber III	Ob Ratard Plantation (in the south) - for light a/c	Pekoa (also the present-day strip)
Peleula Bay (in the south-east, now overgrown with jungle)	Turtle Bay

EFATE

Bauerfield
(west side)

Havannah Harbour
(west side)

Quoin Hill
(south east) - USMC fighter strip

The above airfields are mentioned in the book
"The Lady and the President"
"The Life and Loss of the President Coolidge"
by Peter Stone

AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA

Aitape	Alexishafen	Boram	But
Dagua	Dumpu	Finschhafen	Gauka
Hopoi	Kaiapit	Lae	Madang
Marilinan	Nadzab	Nubia	Saidor
Salamaua	Tadji	Tsili Tsili	Wewak

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Berry (was Bamana, Port Moresby) (USAAF)	Dobadura 5 airfields	Durand (12 miles north of Port Moresby - USAAF) (was Waigani)	Jackson Field (was 7 mile Field - 7 miles north of Port Moresby RAAF)
Gurney Flying Boat Base	Kila Kila (RAAF) (3 miles east of Port Moresby)	Milne Bay - Gurney - plus 2 others airfields	Port Moresby flying boat base
Rogers Field (was Varona, Port Moresby) (USAAF)	Schwimmer (USAAF) (was Laloki, 9 miles NE of Port Moresby)	Turnbull	Wards (Port Moresby) (RAAF)

DUTCH NEW GUINEA

Babo	Cyclops	Fakfak (Flying Boats)	Hollandia
Jefman	Kamiri (Noemfoor Island)	Manokwari	Mar
Merauke	Middleburg	Mokmer (Biak Island)	Moemi
Mongosah	Mumi	Nabire	Namber (Noemfoor Island)
Otawiri	Ransiki	Sagan	Samate (or Semate)
Sentani	Sorong	Timoeka (or Timuka)	Utarom
Wakde Island

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Ballalei (or Ballalle)	Bokokoma	Bonis	Buka Passage
Henderson Field (Guadalcanal)	Kahili	Kara	Kieta
Munda Point (or Munda)	Ondonga	Russell Island	Segi Point
Stirling	Torokina	Vila

Arawe		Cape Gloucester	Cape Hoskins
Gasmata	Green Island	Jacquinot Bay
Lakunai	Namatanai	Rabaul (4 airfields)	Talasea
Vunakanau

Ambon	Amahai	Boela (or Bula)	Haroekoe (or Haruku)
Laha	Liang	Namlea

Ambesia	Baroe	Bingkalapa	Boeloedowang
Gorontalo (Flying boats)	Kendari	Langoan	Limboeng (or Limbung)
Macassar (Flying boats)	Mandai	Menado	Paloe
Pare Pare	Pomelaa

Atambua	Cape Chater (Flying boats)	Cape Lore	Dilli
Fuiloro	Lautem	Nembrala (Roti Island)	Penfoei (or Penfui)

Andir	Banjoewangi	Crissee (or Grissee)	Djokjakarta
Kalibanteng	Kalidjati	Kemajoran	Madioen
Malang	Pasirian	Perak	Soerakarta
Tjillitan	Wonosari	Wonsari

Asa	Jesselton	Keningau	Kotawaringin
Kuching	Kudat	Labuan	Manggar
Melak	Miri	Oelin	Pontianak
Ranau	Samarinda (2 airfields)	Sandakan	Sepinggang
Tabanio	Tarakan	Ulin

Clark Field	Davao (Mindanao)	Dulag	Lingayen Gulf (Flying boats)
Manila (Flying Boats)	Ormoc	San Jose	Tacloban

Benkoelen	Mana	Muntok	Padang
Pakanbaroe	Palembang (3 strips)