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00:16 So we found them. It's not a myth after all.
00:19 The tank traps of the South East Forest are a real thing.
00:23 Just walked up from a track deep in the South East Forest here,
00:26 extending about 100 or even more metres into the bush on either side,
00:30 are these poles, these timber poles that would have been driven in
00:34 by the Volunteer Defence Corps back in the 1940s, 1942, '43,
00:39 in anticipation of a Japanese attack from the coast,
00:44 coming up to the escarpment of the South Coast.
00:48 And these tank traps would hopefully have stopped any tanks
00:51 right in their tracks.
00:54 It's amazing that 80 or so years on that some of these are still standing.
00:59 We've counted on either side of the track, there's probably a good 80 or so
01:03 on either side of the track still in place.
01:06 But what you've got to be careful about, there's also many that aren't here.
01:10 They've been removed for whatever reason, or they've decayed,
01:13 and there's big holes in the ground that you don't want to put your feet in.
01:16 I think they're more of a hazard these days than any tank coming through here.
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