Hundreds of asylum seekers inside the Manus Island detention centre are determined to stay, despite power, water and food supplies being cut off.

The ABC was allowed access to the detention centre after Australian officials left it and the island this morning.

Wearing a shirt that read "I am not a victim I am a warrior", one man took the ABC on a walk-through of the facility, where the remaining 600 men have rigged up makeshift rainwater collection systems and are stockpiling what supplies they can.

He described how contractors had cut pipes and emptied water tanks on Tuesday morning.

Refugees have been stockpiling water. ( Twitter: Nick McKim )

"We have cleaned the compound by ourselves," the man said.

Gesturing to a row of wheelie bins filled with water, he said residents were confident they could survive for at least a month.

"What we do is this water — we just put a little bit of sugar and salt — and we can drink this water, we can stay maybe for a month without food," he said.

"We don't have any food."

'Australia left us here'

The hundreds of men refusing to leave have long said they fear for their safety. ( Twitter: Senator Nick McKim, file )

The detention centre in Papua New Guinea was scheduled to close at 5:00pm on Tuesday.

PNG's Government has been urging the remaining refugees to move to accommodation in the town of Lorengau, but some of the men told the ABC they were concerned for their safety outside the compound after locals looted some parts of the centre on Tuesday morning.

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"They are not going to give us [a] safety guarantee," one man said.

"That's why I'm staying here."

Refugee Behrouz Boochani earlier lodged an affidavit in PNG's Supreme Court, saying it was not safe for refugees to leave the facility.

Just before 8:00pm he tweeted that the power had been cut in areas of the centre.

"The power already cut in Oscar compound. The refugees are moving to Foxtrot right now. Its so dark and scary," he tweeted.

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Mr Boochani earlier said he and the other men feared for their safety if they had to leave.

"The police already, they beat some of the refugees and the local people. They attack the refugees and rob them. This place is not a safe place," he said.

Another man expressed anger at the Australian Government, saying "Australia left us here".

"All asylum seekers are refugees here," he said.

"Australia brought us here, Australia [made] torture for us here."

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the Coalition Government has had a clear and consistent policy since coming to office that anyone attempting to enter Australia illegally by boat would never settle here.

He said detainees had been informed of safe and secure alternate accommodation where health and other services would be maintained.

"The constant claims of [maritime arrivals] and advocates about their situation in Manus are nothing more than subterfuge," Mr Dutton said.

"They have long claimed the Manus RPC was a 'hellhole' but the moment it was to be closed they demanded it be kept open."