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Fortification

Type - Fortification

1801 battery, Obelisk Point

Bare Island Fort

Dawes Point battery

Gap Bluff Armoury building

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Fortification

1801 battery, Obelisk Point

Redoubt built at Obelisk Point near Middle Head in 1801, the first of Sydney's headland harbour batteries. It remained one of the main points of colonial defence until 1839.

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Bare Island Fort

Fortifications on Bare Island whose faulty construction lead to James Barnet resigning as Colonial Architect. From 1912 they were used as a veteran's home until becoming part of Botany Bay National Park in 1967.

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Dawes Point battery

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First permanent fortification in Sydney constructed on the site of Dawes' observatory. The current archaeological site below the southern pylon of the Harbour Bridge reveals a powder magazine, officer quarters, guardhouse and circular battery .

Fort Macquarie

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Square castellated fort built on Bennelong Point, incorporating some of the guns taken from HMS Supply.

Fort Phillip

Hexagonal fort built on Windmill Hill from 1804, but never finished.

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Gap Bluff Armoury building

Fortification formerly part of School of Artillery and Gunnery, now managed by National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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