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

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:-

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Aitkenvale Weir	Albatros Cove NE of Iron Range Emergency Anchorage for Flying Boats	Antil Plains	Amberley
Archerfield	Augustus Downs	Balfe's Creek	Barcaldine
Beenleigh	Blackall	Bohle River	Bonnievilla
Bowen	Bowen Flying Boat Base	Breddan	Brunette Downs
Brymaroo	Bundaberg	Bundaberg Emergency Alighting Area for Flying Boats	Cairns (Civil)
Cairns Flying Boat Base RAAF	Cardwell Emergency Anchorage for Flying Boats	Camooweal	Canobie Station
Carpentaria Downs	Cecil Plains or Tipton Airfield	Charleville	Charleville Meatworks ELG
Charleville Racecourse ELG	Charters Towers	Cloncurry	Coen
Colmslie Flying Boat Base, Naval Air Station, Brisbane, US Navy (Brisbane)	Condamine	Cooktown (Civil) and Cooktown Mission	Cooktown Advanced Flying Boat Base
Coominya	Cunnamulla	Dunk Island	Eagle Farm
Elliot	Fanning	Flinders Group Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage Near Bathurst Bay	Forbes Island Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage NNE of Iron Range
Forks	Gailes	Garbutt	Giru
Gladstone Flying Boat Base DCA	Goolman	Hamilton Flying Boat Base (Brisbane)	Higgins Field, Red Island Point, Red Point (Jacky Jacky or Bamaga)
Horn Island (Nurapai)	Horn Island Flying Boat Base RAAF	Inverleigh	Iron Range (Claudie & Gordon)
Jondaryan	Karumba Flying Boat Base DCA	Kingaroy	Kingston (sometimes called Woodridge)
Lappa Junction	Laura	Leyburn	Loganlea
Longreach	Lowood	Lucinda Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Mackay
Mackay Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Macrossan	Mareeba	Maryborough
Mary River Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Meadowvale	Milgarra station	Mille near Charleville
Mitchell River Mission	Mt Hedlow	Moreton Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Mornington Island (adjacent to RAAF Radar Station No. 313)
Mount Isa	Mount St. John (Townsville)	Mount Surprise	Mourilyan Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage
Normanton	Oakey	Palm Island US Naval Air Station	Petrie
Powlathunga	Redland Bay Flying Boat Base (Post WWII)	Reid River	Rockhampton Connor Park
Rockhampton Flying Boat Alighting Area	Rodd Harbour Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area SE of Gladstone	Rosewood	Ross River
Runcorn (ELG)	Southport Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Strathglass (partly completed at Prairie)	Strathpine
Stock Route	Toogoolawah (now Watts Bridge airfield)	Toowoomba also known as Wilsonton Airfield	Torrens Creek
Townsville Flying Boat Base DCA	Upper Ross River (Kelso Field)	Warrill Creek (Also known as Warwick Road, Mutdapilly of 10 Mile Swamp)	Waterford
Weipa Mission	Wide Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Winton	Winton East
Wivenhoe	Wondoola Station	Woodstock near today's Donnington Airpark	Wrotham Park

Albury	Albion Park	Allandale	Armidale
Ballina Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Bankstown	Bargo	Bateman Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area
Belfrayden	Blowclear	Botany Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Bourke North
Bradley Field	Bringelly	Broadmeadow (Civilian airfield)	Broke
Broken Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Broken Hill South	Brolgan	Buckwoodlands
Bulga	Bundidjarie or Bundidgery	Burke	Burroway or Burreway
Calala	Calwalla	Camden	Castlereagh
Cessnock	Clairville (Later Glen Innes)	Clairville North (ELG for Clairville)	Cobar
Coffs Harbour	Coffs Harbour Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Combaning	Coolamon Road
Cootamundra	Cordeaux	Corowa	Copper Ridge
Cudjello	Dandaloo	Deniliquin	Denison
Dry Forest	Dubbo	Dungog	Evans Head
Fish River	Fleur	Forest Hill near Wagga	Gidley
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
Jervis Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Jones	Junee Road	Kendalls
Lake Albert Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area near Wagga	Lake Cargellico Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Lake Coolah	Lake Victoria
Leetham Field	Lithgow	Lord Howe Island Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area DCA	Maclean Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area
Macleay River Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Marsden Park Also known as Berkshire Park	Mascot	Menangle
Millthorpe	Minore	Mittagong	Mogriguy
Moroco	Moruya	Moruya Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Moss Vale
Mount Colah	Mudgee	Mt Druitt	Nabiac
Narrandera	Narromine	Nepean Dam, Penrith Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Newcastle
Newcastle Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	North Bourke	Nowra	Orange
Parkes	Piggot	Pitt Town now Airstrip Rd, Pitt Town	Pokolbin
Port Kembla Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Port Macquarie Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Port Stephens Flying Boat Emergence Alighting Area DCA	Pucawan
Raglan	Rathmines Flying Boat Base RAAF	Ravenswood	Richmond
Ringwood	Rose Bay Flying Boat Base DCA	Roto	Schofields
Scone	Shoalhaven River Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Spring Creek Reservoir (Orange) Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	St. Georges Basin Flying Boat Base near Jervis Bay
Strowan	Stud Park	Tamworth	Temora
The Oaks	Tichbourne	Timbrebongie	Tocumwal "McIntyre Field"
Tootool	Trangie	Trescowthick	Triamble (Wing V?)
Tuggerah	Twofold Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Uranquinty	Vineyards
Wagga Road	Wagga Wagga	Wait O While	Wallgrove (near Doonside)
Wandook	Wangonilla or Wanganelle	Warbreccan	Warkworth
Wellingrove	Wentworth	Williamtown	Woodlands
Woy Woy (Satellite of Schofields)	Yanga Lake Flying Boat Base Emergency Alighting Area Balranald	Yarragundry	Youngs Road

Adelaide River E.L.G.	Adelaide River No. 3 (Brooks)	Alice Springs (Town Site Airfield)	Allchin 95 mile peg
Arnhem Bay Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Austin Snake Bay, Melville Island	Barton 9.5 miles south of Birdum Planned but not built	Batchelor
Bathurst Island	Berry Springs?	Birdum	Blanchard 3.5 miles south of Birdum Planned but not built
Blyth No. 1 E.L.G.	Brooks 1 mile east of Adelaide River	Brunette Downs	Coomalie Creek
Cape Fourcroy	Cridland 5 miles north of Larrimah Planned but not built Originally named Vaughan	Cuming 20.6 miles south of Daly Waters Planned but not built	Daly Waters
Darwin (RAAF)	Darwin Flying Boat Base DCA	Darwin Civil airfield at Parap	Dobbs 18 miles south of Mataranka Originally named Towers
Doctor's Gully (Darwin - Flying Boat Base)	East Arm Flying Boat Base	Faull 4 miles NW of Mataranka Originally named Dale	Fenton (Brock's Creek)
Fielder 5.6 miles south of Daly Waters Planned but not built	Fish 7 miles SW of Katherine Planned but not built Originally name Ronald	Fraser A proposed medium bomber airfield east of 41 mile peg between highway and Manton River	George Yard ELG (Landing Ground No. 341)
Gill Creek ELG (Landing Ground No. 337) 2 miles north of 112 mile turn-off originally called Chaffin	Gove	Gorrie	Gould (near Batchelor)
Groote Eylandt Flying Boat Harbour	Hodge 4.5 miles east of Katherine Planned but not built	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 Originally called Ellison
Manbulloo	Maranboy E.L.G.	Mataranka	Mathison ELG (Landing Ground No. 343)
McAlister 10.2 miles NW of Mataranka	McDonald 9 miles NW of Pine Creek originally called Burkholder	Melville Bay airfield	Melville Bay Flying Boat Base (Watson's Bay)
Miller 4 miles south of Mataranka	Millingimbi	Millingimbi Island Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Miners 7 Miles south of Mataranka Originally named Knox
Mitchell 8 miles south of Mataranka	Namola 3.4 miles NW of Maranboy Siding Planned but not built	Nelly Waterhole ELG (Landing Ground No. 414)	O'Connor's Field (Howard Island)
Oenpelli E.L.G. near Alligator River	Payne 7 miles NE of Adelaide River	Pell (65 Mile)	Pine Creek
Port Keats	Reynolds No. 4 E.L.G.	Riding 36 mile peg, south of Livingstone. Only partially built.	Sattler (20 Mile)
Sauber 11 miles SE of Adelaide River	Seven Mile Airfield Alice Springs	Snake Bay airfield Melville Island	Strauss (27 Mile)
Taylor 4.5 miles east of Birdum Planned but not built	Tennant Creek	Tindal Originally known as Carson's Field	Tipperary No. 9 E.L.G.
Tyler 6.4 miles north of Daly Waters Planned but not built Originally named Turnbull	Vaughan Springs Civil Relief Landing Ground	Venn originally Wilson Airfield (south east of Katherine)	Victoria River Civil Relief Landing Ground
Willing Originally called Adams	Woolyanna No. 8 B E.L.G.

Another Military map of the Northern Territory
showing various military establishments

Ararat	Bacchus Marsh Satellite for Laverton	Bairnsdale	Ballarat
Benalla	Carrum	Craigeburn	Cressy
Deakin	Devenish	Dutson	East Sale
East Stratford	Essendon	Exford (Dispersal Field for Laverton)	Fishermans Bend
Flynn's Creek	Geelong Flying Boat Harbour	Gifford	Gladstone Park Satellite for Essendon
Glengarry	Goorambat	Greenhills (Packenham)	Hann's Inlet Flying Boat Harbour
Heath Hill	Keilor Satellite for Essendon	Lake Boga Flying Boat Repair Depot	Lake Victoria
Lara	Laverton	Mallacoota	Mallacoota Inlet Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area
Mangalore West	Maryvale	Metung Flying Boat Advanced Base	Mokoan
Monomeith Park (Koo-wee-rup)	Mildura	Mordialloc (VAOC emergency landing strip)	Murchison East
Nambrok	Nhill	Oaklands Satellite for Essendon	Point Cook
Point Cook Flying Boat Base	Port Albert Flying Boat Harbour	Portland Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Rothwell
Somerton Satellite for Essendon	Swan Hill	Truganina (Dispersal Field fo r Laverton)	Warrnambool
Welshpool Flying Boat Harbour	Wentworth	Werribee	Werribee II
West Sale	Williamstown Flying Boat Alighting Area	Wooloomanata	Yanakie (Wilson's Promontory)
Yelta

Ajana Satellite for Geraldton	Albany	Albany Flying Boat Base	Anna Plains (US controlled)
Beverley Satellite for Middle Swan	Bindoon Satellite for Middle Swan	Broome	Broome Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage
Bunbury	Bunbury Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Busselton	Campbell Argyle Downs Station
Cape Leveque	Carnarvon	Carnarvon Flying Boat Advanced Base	Cocos Island Flying Boat Alighting Area
Corunna Downs	Cue	Crawley or Advance Base "A" Pelican Point near Perth (US Navy Flying boats)	Cunderdin No. 1 and Cunderdin No. 2
Derby	Derby Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Dowerin South	Drysdale Mission
Esperance Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Exmouth Gulf Advance Base "D" for Dog (US Navy Flying Boats)	Exmouth Gulf No. 2	Forrest
Georgina (Satellite field for Geraldton)	Geraldton Advance Base "B" for Baker (US Navy Flying Boats)	Geraldton Flying Boat Base RAAF	Gin Gin North Satellite for Middle Swan
Goomalling	Guildford (Now Perth Airport)	Heron Haven Advance Base "E" for Easy (US Navy Flying Boats)	Hillman
Kalgoorlie	Kojarina	Kununoppin or Kunnunoppin	Learmonth (Exmouth in the Potshot area)
Maylands	Meckering Satellite for Pearce	Meekatharra	Merredin ELG
Middle Swan (Caversham)	Minderoo	Mooliabeenee or Moolia Beenie Satellite for Middle Swan	Moora
Muchea East Satellite for Pearce	Narrogin East	Narrogin West	Nilli Bubbaca
Noonkanbah (Near Fitzroy Crossing)	North West Cape	Onslow	Pearce
Peel Inlet Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Perth	Perth Flying Boat Base Crawley - Pelican Point	Pinjarra North
Port George Flying Boat Advanced Base	Port Hedland Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Rockwell	Roebourne
Shark Bay Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area	Tenindewa	Three Springs	Truscott
Upper Swan Satellite for Guildford	Wagin	Walkaway	Wilson Inlet Flying Boat Emergency Alighting Area
Wonnerup	Wyndham	Wyndham Flying Boat Harbour	Yalgoo
Yampi Sound (Flying Boats)	Yanrey	Yulleroo

I'd like to thank Phil Vabre, Bob Livingstone and Dennis Whiley for their assistance with this home page.

"Named Airfields of the North-western Command RAAF 1939 - 1945"
by Walter J. Venn

"Flying Boat Bases and Alighting Areas Australia"
by Headquarters Royal Australian Air Force, June 1943

Beachport Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Blanche Port Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Calomba	Ceduna
Coolwa Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Gawler	Kingscote Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Lower Light
Mallala	Mt. Gambier	Murat Bay Flying Boat Advanced Base Ceduna	Myponga
Oodnadatta	Parafield	Port Adelaide (Outer Harbour) USN Flying Boat Base	Port Adelaide Flying Boat Advanced Base RAAF
	Port Douglas Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Port Eyre Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Port Lincoln Flying Boat Harbour
Port Pirie Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Saints	Tintinara	Venus Harbour Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage
Virginia Relief Landing Ground near Parafield	Wallaroo Flying Boat Emergency Anchorage	Waterloo Bay Flying Boat Harbour

Auburn (Surveyed only)	Cambridge	Currie or Curry	Hobart Flying Boat Advanced Base
Launceston Flying Boat Advanced Base	Longford	Nile Relief Landing Ground 7.5miles south of Western Junction	Pats River
Quorn Hall	Tunbridge	Valley Field (or Valleyfields)	Western Junction (now Launceston civil airfield)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)