Nissen hut
![Nissen Huts, Cultybraggan Camp, close to Comrie, in west Perthshire](/Images/godic/202501/29/Nissen_Huts,_Cultybraggan_Camp2053.jpg")
![Nissen hut on Island road, in the process of the roof being removed. Near Fockerby, North Lincolnshire](/Images/godic/202501/29/Nissen_hut_on_Island_road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_14399122053.jpg")
![One of many Nissen huts covered with earth and used for munition storage during World War II. Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin, NT, Australia, 2006](/Images/godic/202501/29/Munition-store2053.jpg")
A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel. Originally designed during World War I by engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen, it was used extensively during World War II.