The following is a list of current and former commissioned bases used by the Royal Australian Navy.
Naval facility | Purpose | State/Territory | Location | Period | Notes |
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Fleet Base East | Fleet base, depot, dockyard | New South Wales | Sydney | Includes,, Garden Island dockyard & berthing facilities | |
Fleet Base West (HMAS Stirling) | Fleet base, depot | Western Australia | Garden Island (Meandup) | Major west coast warship & submarine base | |
Naval air station | New South Wales | Nowra | Fleet Air Arm | ||
Base | Queensland | Cairns | Patrol boat, hydrography, and minor war vessels base | ||
HMAS Cerberus | Training facility | Victoria | Crib Point | Formerly located at | |
Base | Northern Territory | Former Naval Wireless Transmitting Station, now a patrol boat base | |||
Training facility | Jervis Bay Territory | Jervis Bay | Location of the Royal Australian Naval College | ||
Administration | South Australia | Adelaide | Administration | ||
Communications facility | Australian Capital Territory | Canberra | A tri-service base | ||
Administrative, logistical, training, accommodation | New South Wales | Sydney | Administrative base for Fleet Base East | ||
Administration | Queensland | Brisbane | Administration and reserves | ||
Depot, specialist training | New South Wales | Location of Balmoral Naval Hospital, hydrographic school, diving school and medical school | |||
Base | New South Wales | Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Headquarters, part of Fleet Base East | |||
Training facility | New South Wales | Watsons Bay | Location of Maritime Warfare school | ||
Former naval facility | Former purpose | Country / State/Territory | Location | Period | Notes | |
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Training facility | New South Wales | |||||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby |
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Depot | Queensland | Brisbane | ||||
Base | Queensland | Thursday Island | ||||
England | London | |||||
Administrative centre | Japan | Kure | ||||
Depot | Tasmania | Hobart | ||||
Depot | South Australia | Port Adelaide | ||||
Depot | Indonesia | Halmahera Island | ||||
Depot | Tasmania | Hobart | ||||
Depot | Queensland | Cairns | ||||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Milne Bay | ||||
Depot Training facility | Western Australia | Fremantle | Currently used by Australian Army, known as Leeuwin Barracks | |||
Depot | Victoria | Port Melbourne | ||||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Torokina | 1945 | |||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Madang | ||||
Depot | Queensland | Townsville | ||||
Depot | New South Wales | |||||
Depot | Northern Territory | Replaced by HMAS Coonawarra | ||||
Training facility | New South Wales | Woolloomooloo | ||||
Depot | Queensland | Brisbane | ||||
Naval air station Training facility | New South Wales | Quakers Hill |
| Now a campus of the Western Sydney University (2007) | ||
Submarine base | New South Wales | Neutral Bay | ||||
Depot | New South Wales | Rushcutters Bay | Commissioned as HMAS Rushcutter on 1 August 1940 | |||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Los Negros Island | 1950 | Name of base changed to .[1] | ||
Depot | Papua New Guinea | Dreger Harbour near Finschhafen, Los Negros Island |
| Base at Dreger closed in 1950, and the base name and its personnel and equipment transferred to the former at Manus Island. | ||
Depot | South Australia | Port Adelaide | ||||
Administrative centre | United States of America | Washington DC | ||||