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 ocupa el puesto 204 de 6412 en el mundo en la clasificación de fama de este atlas y el n.º 1 de los 10 que el atlas cartografía en Australia. Fundado en ca. 1885, más antiguo que el 5% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 432 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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