South Channel Fort

South Channel Fort, also known as South Channel Island, is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento. It was part of a network of fortifications protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.

It is 122 m long, 76 m wide, and is 6.4 m above sea-level, and was built on a shoal, close to the main shipping channel of the bay, with 14,000 tonnes of bluestone boulders, concrete and sand. It was constructed during the 1880s as part of a defensive strategy to protect and control access by sea to Port Phillip and the cities of Melbourne and Geelong. Its principal purpose was to illuminate the main shipping channel at night, and to explode mines under attacking ships which had breached the defences at Port Phillip Heads. The fort still contains remnants of its original military equipment, including disappearing guns.

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South Channel Fort steht weltweit auf Platz 204 von 6.412 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 1 der 10 in Australien verzeichneten. Gegründet um 1885, ist es älter als 5% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 432 Atlas-Objekten, die im 19. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie in der Burgen-Statistik, wie Australien abschneidet.

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