Cootamundra's WW2 Fuel Depot

Fronting onto the Olympic Highway at the southern end of Cootamundra are a collection of large tanks, two of them bearing a prominent Ampol sign.

When a plan was announced in 1940 to construct bulk fuel tanks throughout Australia the world was six months into a six-year-long war that would result in an estimated 72,814 Australian casualties.

Cootamundra was already playing a key role in the war effort, none more significant than sending off men and women to war, a number of whom never returned.

Less well known was the strategic role played by the big tanks located on the hillside opposite the historic flour mill and a stone’s throw away from the railway line.

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