Fort Queenscliff Keep

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For over 150 years Fort Queenscliff has been overlooking the shipping lanes to Geelong and Melbourne and a fine example of the defences that existed around the coastline of Australia from colonial times through to the end of the Second World War.
Fort Queenscliff dates from 1860 and was the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads making it one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire.The first Allied shots of World War I were fired when a gun at Fort Nepean shot a warning shot across the bow of a German ship trying to flee. The orders to fire came from Fort Queenscliff. The same gun, with a different barrel, also fired the first Allied shot of World War II.
Also home of the Black Lighthouse (Fort Queenscliff Lighthouse) it is one of three black lighthouses in the world, and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere. Together with the nearby white Queenscliff Low Light, it was built in 1862 to replace the former sandstone lighthouse of 1843

Considerable restoration has been accomplished at Fort Queenscliff in recent years, including the recovery and refurbishment of some of the original guns, the restoration of historic buildings, and the development of a comprehensive indoor display and archival centre. Fort Queenscliff has been classified by the National Trust and entered in the Register of the National Estate.

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