![]() ![]() ![]() There are a number of tunnels and bunkers located beneath HMAS Watson on South Head at Watsons Bay. The remnants of Sydney's defence system will perhaps never be used again as modern methods of warfare have made them obsolete. Only a few air-raid shelters in back yards are known to still exist. Almost none of the hundreds of kilometres of barbed wire laid during the war survives. It is estimated that of about one hundred anti-aircraft and searchlight positions, less than half a dozen remain. They were under gunned, poorly designed and often outdated by the time they were finished.Įven the fortifications built during World War II were put up quickly, and have deteriorated quickly. Most fortifications of all eras were hastily built, as much to ease the people's minds that something was being done to defend them rather than to establish an efficient defence system. By the city's centennial year, Sydney's defence network had been enlarged to include coastal defences with development reaching its zenith during World War II. ![]() From the early days of colonial Sydney, its Governors saw the need to defend Sydney from an invasion by sea. ![]()
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