Cultana Training Area

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The Cultana Training Area extends from El Alamein Camp neat Port Augusta in the north, all the way to Port Bonython and Point Lowly in the south and includes the coastal areas in between.
Cultana is used as a wet season live fire training area for Darwin-based units as well as southern-based regular and reserve units. The area is considered particularly valuable due to the similarity of terrain to that of Afghanistan.

Plans are nearing completion to expand the training area five-fold with the purchase of several pastoral stations to the West. This will extend Cultana's NW corner to just short of the Iron Monarch Mine, and its SW corner to just short of the Iron Baron Mine. The expantion will create the ADF's largest training area, and will enable full combined arms exercises (air, land and sea elements). The purchase of these properties should be complete by the end of 2011.