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HMAS Kuttabul is the Royal Australian Navy's main naval base on the east coast of Australia. The base is located at Garden Island in Sydney and is home to much of the RAN's surface fleet. Garden Island has been host to a naval base since 1856 and was the RAN's only major base from the Navy's establishment until the 1980s when HMAS Stirling in Western Australia was expanded. With the establishment of two main bases, Kuttabul and Garden Island took on the additional designation of Fleet Base East.