Dawes Point
Sydney's Dawes Point. Formerly a cemetery, an observatory, a powder magazine and a castellated fort by Francis Greenway. And of course, the superb Dawes Point Battery.
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Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The lower defenses (there were two levels) of Dawes Point Battery. Constructed July 1791, renovated 1860 (overseen by Captain George Barney).
Formerly a cemetery, an observatory, a powder magazine and a castellated fort also by Greenway. In the 1870s - 1880s the defenses were relocated to the Heads surrounding Port Jackson, and Dawes Point Battery fell into disuse.
