Quobba
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On the North West Coastal Highway, some 20kms North of Carnarvon, is a side road which leads to Quobba Stn, a distance of 60kms. 3kms. before the Stn. Homestead is a side track leading to the coast and the HMAS Sydney Memorial Cairn, located at this spot as it was in this area that the German survivors landed and a carley float and life jackets from Sydney were found. Approached by a long path from a small car park the Cairn overlooks the Indian Ocean and bears the plaques shown above. The round plaque is mounted on top of the Cairn and has several compass bearing lines incised upon it, the upper l/h one indicating, at approx. 80 miles distant, the probable site of the battle, the two upper r/h lines indicate where the two lifeboats landed. The side road leading to the Memorial has recently acquired a new directional signpost being a steel plate featuring a silohuette of HMAS Sydney, a plate mounted on a boulder below reads:
This signpost was donated by Harold Adams and Family on 19th.November,2003 in memory of his 645 shipmates lost at sea aboard HMAS Sydney on 19th. November,1941 - Lest We Forget
Able Seaman Harold Adams had been a member of the Sydney crew since 1939, When the Sydney departed Fremantle on it's last fateful voyage Able Seaman Adams was left behind for medical reasons.