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New national maritime museum opens in Australia

The Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in Sydney is in a high security area normally off limits to the public. The Royal Australian Navy is revealing a huge collection of maritime artefacts collected over more than a century of war and peace. There are deck guns and ship's bells and the conning tower of a Japanese midget submarine, which attacked Sydney Harbour in World War Two.
Read entire article at ABC Australia, Radio National "The World Today"