Australian Geographic

Nullarbor POW camps

WHILE EXPLORING AUSTRALIA by helicopter in the 1980s, Dick and Pip Smith spied some unusual rock patterns along the Trans-Australian Railway line. Further investigation (for a story in AG 14) led to speculation these may have been World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) internment camps that held Italian soldiers shipped back from Africa or Europe.

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