Site Details

Name

WWII Strauss Airstrip

Status

Permanent Declaration

Type

Place

Description

Strauss Airstrip and its associated sites are located within a trapezoidal area approximately 99 hectares in size (0.99km2, 3 kilometres, 570 metres wide at the southern end and 190 metres wide at the northern end). The airstrip is 1500 metres long (north south) by 50 metres (east west) and still has the original bitumen.

Statement Of
Heritage Value

Strauss Airstrip, dating from 1942-45, is one of the last surviving and most intact World War Two pursuit fighter installations in northern Australia. An important strategic component of the Allied defence of northern Australia, Strauss played a pivotal role in the air war against Japan by providing a base for the use of P40 Kittyhawk and Spitfire fighter squadrons.

Strauss was used by large numbers of American and British aircraft during the war, and has associations with Australia's engagement during the 20th Century in the crucial alliance with the United States and Great Britain.

Artefacts at Strauss Airstrip represent significant elements of a wartime airstrip with the potential to contribute to an understanding of the role of the pursuit fighter squadrons in Darwin during World War Two, in addition to informing the lives of servicemen in a (then) remote theatre of war.

Nominated

01/05/1998

Nomination Refused

Nomination Accepted

01/05/1998

Provisional Declaration

Assessment Report
Considered

24/08/2000

Report Action

Comment sought

Report Comments

Recommended

Not Recommended

Refused By Minister

Referred Back

Signed By Minister

06/10/2003

Publish notice of
declaration

18/10/2003

Gazetted

13/10/2003

Revoked

Destroyed

File No

2001/194

Value

Historic

Conservation Policy

LGA

Comments

Interpretive shelter and replica's of WWII planes installed beside airstrip Aug 2005 to celebrate 60th Anniversary of end of WWII in Pacific.

Located on the western side of the Stuart Highway between Noonamah and the Cox Peninsula Road turn off approximately 60 kilometres south of Darwin.

Photo

	Name	Description	Date Added
View	IMGP0102.JPG	WWII Strauss Airfield	08/DEC/14
View	Strauss 1800x1200 signs-proof.pdf	WWII Strauss Airfield site plan	08/DEC/14

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Scan

	Name	Description	Date Added
View	Instrument.pdf	-	11/FEB/09

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Further Information

	Name	Description	Date Added
View	WWII Strauss airstrip.pdf	Background Historical Information	21/MAR/11

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Approximate Location

LAIS Key	Street Number	Street Name	Suburb	Location Code	Lot Number	LTO Plan	Part	Tenure
695 00407	1980	STUART	NOONAMAH	695	407	-	-	V

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Status Explanations

Nomination Period - a nomination has been accepted by Heritage Branch, but has not yet been accepted by the Heritage Council; OR a nomination has been accepted by the Heritage Council but the place/object has not yet been subject to a heritage assessment.

Assessment Period - a nomination has been accepted by the Heritage Council and the place/object is in the process of being assessed.

Consultation Period - Heritage assessment has been completed and s24 of the Act has been instigated, ie comment has been sought on a proposal to declare the place/object.

Recommendation Period - the Heritage Council has made a recommendation to declare the place/object and the Minister's final decision is awaited.

Not Recommended - a decision has been made by the Heritage Council not to recommend to the Minister that a place/object be declared

Declared - the Minister has made a decision to declare the place/object

Refused - the Minister has refused to declare the place/object