It is located near the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, adjacent to Lord Airey's Battery.

Lord Airey's Shelter is in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

[1][2] The shelter is located underground, near the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, just north of Lord Airey's Battery, and adjacent to the Mediterranean Steps.

[6][7] The tunnels for Lord's Airey's Shelter were chosen as the site for the highly classified underground complex of Operation Tracer.

During the Second World War, it is generally thought that German spies observed the amount of garbage and construction debris removed from the Rock of Gibraltar at a variety of sites.

[5] In addition, the amount of tunneling in the area of Lord Airey's Shelter during the Second World War may have served as cover while Operation Tracer's Stay Behind Cave was built.