The Guns of Broken Bay Between the mouth of the Hawkesbury - TopicsExpress



          

The Guns of Broken Bay Between the mouth of the Hawkesbury River and Pittwater, is Ku-ring-gai National Park, below the cliffs of Commodore Heights lay the remains of an old defence complex that has become known as West Head Fort During WWII this fort formed the first line of a system of defences protecting Pittwater, the Hawkesbury Rail Bridge and Woy Woy Rail Tunnel. This old fort has two particularly unique features: *Gun Battery - it is the only dual 4.7” gun battery in Australia *Inclined Railway - it is the only defence system in Australia that had an inclined railway to service it. Read more here 4hresearch/west-head-fort.html
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:29:59 +0000

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