Building in Range Area, Point Nepean National Park, Portsea, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia

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Point Nepean National Park is located at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. The park includes a number of intact historic buildings from the past 150 years relating to both quarantine and military use. The park includes many fortifications from the 1880s - 1940s, when the entrance to Port Phillip Bay was the most heavily fortified ports in the Southern Hemisphere. The first shot of the British Empire in World War 1 was fired from Gun Emplacement 6 at Fort Nepean on 5 August 2014. It was also the sit of Australia's first shot in World War 2. The park also incorporates Cheviot beach, where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt drowned while swimming on 17 December 1967. Image depicts abandoned building in Range Area, which was used by the Army Officer Cadet School from 1952-1985 to train cadets in firing rifles, sub-machine and machine guns.

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Size: 4500px × 3000px
Location: Point Nepean National Park, Portsea, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
Photo credit: © Kerin Forstmanis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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