Showing posts with label Colonial Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colonial Australia. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

The Defence of Melbourne, Redux?

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Great to catch with a gaming mate recently (lets call him Dave, mostly because thats his name). Of course was showing him my recently comple...
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Friday, 2 May 2025

Ben Buckler Disappearing Gun Emplacement, Sydney

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Earlier fortifications focused on inner harbour defences, but technology had rapidly progressed in the intervening years to require Sydney...
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Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Fort Denison, Sydney

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Situated in the central approaches to the harbour, this natural island could not be more ideally situated to defend Sydney Cove.  Originally...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Bare Island Fort, Sydney

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Bare Fort was part of the secondary defences of Sydney, not in the main harbour area but guarding the entrance to the industrial Port Botany...
Thursday, 21 March 2019

Beehive Casemate, Middle Head, Sydney

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Beehive Casemate is a Colonial era fortification at Obelisk Bay, a small inslet within Sydney Harbour.   Construction was part of the wider ...
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Friday, 6 April 2018

Fort Warrnambool, Victoria

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‘1884 Field Artillery Gun overlooking the sea on Cannon hill, Warrnambool’, Libraries Australia ID 49408382  Warrnambool Fort, also known as...
Monday, 28 March 2016

Melbourne's Sea Forts that never were

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Proposed but never built, based on the Channel forts off Portsmouth, UK.  Would have made fascinating additions to the Victorian defensive n...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

Dawes Battery, Sydney Cove

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A Man and his 42 pdr RML Dawes Point (now under the southern pylon of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge) was the site of the fi...
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