Fort Denison

Military site

Martello tower fort built on an island in Sydney Harbour.

Names
Alternate
Mat-te-wan-ye
Alternate
Rock Island
Colloquial
Pinchgut
Milestones
Constructed
1855
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1857

Fort Denison

by Laila Ellmoos, 2008

 

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Originally a rocky island used as a place of punishment for convicts, Fort Denison was built over and renamed when fortifications were constructed there in the mid-nineteenth century in an attempt to protect the city from seaborne invasion. Though the fort was never used for that purpose, it has collected tidal and meteorological information since it was built.
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