Showing posts with label Fortifications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fortifications. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 June 2026

Bradleys Head Battery, Sydney

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Bradleys Head Battery is a coastal fortification on the inner north shore of Sydney harbour, initially constructed 1840-42 by convicts on th...
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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...
Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Fort Philip, Sydney

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Standing high on Windmill Hill above The Rocks, Fort Phillip was one of the initial fortifications built to defend the colony.  It was named...
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