Two huge U.S.-Australia military bases will be built in north-western Australia, with one of them being "larger than Holand," a leading Australian newspaper reported on Monday.

This is the first time that details of the bases, which are sensitive to Australia's neighbors, are reported.

A new base at Bradshaw in the Northern Territory will be equipped with a landing strip for giant C-17 military transport aircraft and accommodation for some 750 troops, or a U.S. marine expeditionary battalion, The Australian Financial Review reported.

The newspaper quoted senior sources as saying that the base covers about 41,000 square km and is larger than the military base in Holand.

The area is reported to be outside civil air traffic radar coverage and this will enable military planes with heavy equipment and larger numbers of troops to come and go unnoticed, the report said.

Plans are under way for another base at Yampi Sound, on the north-western Kimberley coast of Western Australia, for joint U.S.- Australian training in amphibious seaborne landing techniques.

Former defense minister Robert Hill announced the two bases, together with a third Shoalwater Bay base in Queensland, in July last year, but the Australian and U.S. governments have provided few details of the bases to avoid concerns from Australia's regional neighbors, according to the report.

Source: Xinhua