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Chowder Bay Naval Facilities

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

Chowder Bay Naval Facilities are highly significant as they are directly associated with the development of Sydney Harbour defences during the latter part of the nineteenth century and World War ...

Royal Australian Naval Transmitting Station ACT

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

When established on April 20 1939 the RAN Transmitting Station at Belconnen, the most powerful short wave naval wireless station in the Commonwealth and the largest naval or commercial station ...

Royal Australian Naval College ACT

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

The RAN College, HMAS Creswell, is located between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch on the shores of Jervis Bay in the Jervis Bay Territory. The Royal Australian Naval College is ...

Garden Island WA

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

Location & importance Garden Island, 50 km south of Perth, WA is a slender 10 x 1.5 kilometre island lying about five kilometres off the Western Australian coast, to which ...

Naval Offices QLD

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

The offices of Navy were first established in Brisbane at the former Port Office at 39 Edward Street on the Brisbane River in 1886. The offices were designed as an ...

HMAS Cerberus

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

The RAN establishment, HMAS Cerberus covers an area of 1517 hectares and is 70 kilometres from Melbourne near Crib Point on Hann’s Inlet, Western Port Bay. HMAS Cerberus and the ...

Admiralty House, Garden and Fortifications

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

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Beecroft Peninsula NSW

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

The Beecroft Peninsula is the spectacular northern headland of Jervis Bay, about 200 kilometres south of Sydney. Its heritage value stems from its outstanding natural, cultural and historic features. On ...

Spectacle Island Explosives Complex NSW

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

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HMAS Penguin

· Jun 29, 2017 ·

HMAS Penguin is of exceptional heritage and historic interest in that it is a fine example of a purpose built Naval training and hospitalisation complex erected in 1940-45 during the ...

HMAS Watson

· Jun 28, 2017 ·

HMAS Watson was commissioned in 1945 and continues today as the home of several important maritime warfare school for officers and sailors. Located on the South Head of Port Jackson (Sydney ...

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