Its 1943. Its hot. The terrain steep. The conditions are not much better.

And you and your team need to build 5 oil tanks.

Welcome to Darwin!

These five storage tanks are located at different locations along the Darwin cliff face. 1 Located in Larrakeyah, another at Doctors Gully and 3 along the Bicentennial Park. Get up close like no one has before and view these grand tanks.

One (at Doctors Gully) was even transferred into a rock climbing facility - The Rock Centre!

A friend of mine was going to build a 360 degree theatre inside one of those tanks to promote the top end. That was about 20 years ago, and the one he selected was nearest to the city centre. But negotiations failed and it did not get built.

Extraordinary structures

Nicely done,   I love the old hidden history thats all around us.    

Very well captured and interesting backstory!

Buy one, fill it up with petrol/diesel at today's prices and in a few weeks you'll be a millionaire! (Probably have to be very rich in the first place to fill it right enough).

Marvelous footage, King_Flight! Thanks for sharing this with us.

Nice find.    Bet that was a lot of work constructing those tanks.  

A little bit of history, nice.

Geebax Posted at 3-21 14:48
A friend of mine was going to build a 360 degree theatre inside one of those tanks to promote the top end. That was about 20 years ago, and the one he selected was nearest to the city centre. But negotiations failed and it did not get built.

That's interesting. Would have been great especially so close to the deck chair theatre.

Blériot53 Posted at 3-21 15:08
Extraordinary structures

Very much so.

DAFlys Posted at 3-22 00:21
Nicely done,   I love the old hidden history thats all around us.

Drones help to find those hidden stories.

Montfrooij Posted at 3-22 00:39
Very well captured and interesting backstory!

Thank you.

yogi053 Posted at 3-22 00:49
Buy one, fill it up with petrol/diesel at today's prices and in a few weeks you'll be a millionaire! (Probably have to be very rich in the first place to fill it right enough).

And I will call it FuelCOIN. What a great idea. lol

DJI Paladin Posted at 3-22 02:48
Marvelous footage, King_Flight! Thanks for sharing this with us.

Thank you.

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-22 10:05
Nice find.    Bet that was a lot of work constructing those tanks.

It was hot just doing the video - let alone building them,

desmag Posted at 3-22 11:41
A little bit of history, nice.

Thank you.

King_Flight Posted at 3-22 16:03
Thank you.

Always my pleasure, King_Flight. Take care always!

King_Flight Posted at 3-22 16:02
Drones help to find those hidden stories.

Absolutely.   

King_Flight Posted at 3-22 16:03
It was hot just doing the video - let alone building them,

I have no doubt it was hot.    What a great find though.

King_Flight Posted at 3-22 16:02
Thank you.

You're welcome!