澳大利亚是地处南半球、位于印度洋和太平洋西南部的四面环水的岛国,海岸线长度超过2万千米。东北部的托雷斯海峡、东南角的巴斯海峡以及东部大堡礁之间狭窄、弯曲而危险的航道都是布雷危险区。虽然两次世界大战的战火未危及这方沃土,但德、日也曾在东部与东北部水域布放过水雷。澳大利亚也曾出动1215架次飞机,在日本周围水域布放过 Australia is located in the southern hemisphere, located in the Indian Ocean and south-west Pacific Ocean, surrounded by water, the coastline of more than 20,000 km. The narrow, curving and dangerous waterways between the Torres Strait in the northeast, the Bass Strait in the southeast corner, and the Great Barrier Reef in the east are the mine risk zones. Although the fighting between the two world wars did not endanger the fertile soil of this side, Germany and Japan once also arranged mines in the eastern and northeastern waters. Australia has also dispatched 1215 sorties in the waters surrounding Japan