More than 1500 ADF personnel serving with the United Nations in East Timor were given the opportunity to vote in the recent Australian Federal Election despite being hundreds of kilometres from home.

A polling team, made up of Australian soldiers, was deployed to East Timor on behalf of the Australian Electoral Commission to ensure all Australian service personnel could have their say in the election.

The team travelled throughout East Timor by foot, vehicle and helicopter to even the most remote locations.

OIC of the Mobile Polling Team Maj Paul Rosenzweig said the most remote location visited was a communications re-transmission station positioned atop a 7000-foot mountain nicknamed Mt Everest by Australian diggers.

"The team flew by Black Hawk helicopter to Everest to establish a polling station that, at 7200 feet, is only 100 feet short of our own Mt Kosciuszko and could well be the highest used in the election," he said.

A small contingent of Australian infantrymen and signallers rotate through Everest, which sits a few kilometres from the East-West Timor border.