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CROWS NEST CAMP SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENTS

Other Name

CROWS NEST SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENTS

Location

THE ESPLANADE AND FLINDERS STREET QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

Part of the defensive network installed to protect Port Phillip Heads. These facilities are shown in plans dated 1918 (Read, 1918), but searchlights have been known to exist in this area before this time. Possible State Heritagesignificance as part of the defence landscape of Port Phillipand Queesncliff. Local value as part of the Queenscliff/ ShortlandsBluff defence landscape.

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