Bare Island Fort

Bare Island is a heritage-listed islet located at La Perouse, New South Wales in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in eastern Australia. The islet is located about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south east of the Sydney central business district, within Botany Bay, close to the bay's northern headland. Containing former fortification facilities, Bare Island was a former war veterans' home and museum and is now a historic site that was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 and is significant as an almost completely intact example of late nineteenth century coastal defence technology. It was designed by Sir Peter Scratchley, Gustave Morell and James Barnet and built from 1881 to 1889 by John McLeod on behalf of the NSW Department of Public Works.

Bare Island is connected by a footbridge to the mainland of La Perouse. The heritage-listed military fort and tunnels can only be visited by guided tour. The waters around the island are popular with scuba divers. The Bare Island anglerfish is named after this island.

Text adapted from “Bare Island (New South Wales)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bare Island Fort ranks #2,399 of 5,814 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #2 of the 8 mapped in Australia. Founded 1889, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 411 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Australia compares in the castle statistics.

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