This cute and compact shipping container home was built to provide shelter for researchers studying the rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. Made of two conventional shipping containers, the house has a full 90 square meters of living space and stays dry and free of insects and vermin despite the heavy tropical rain that is typical to the area. On March 20, 2006, Larry, a category 5 cyclone with wind gusts traveling up to 283kmh battered the area but when the dust settled, the tough house was still standing (with some minor damage to its canopy) – a testament to shipping container power!

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