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WANGANUI 5" COASTAL BATTERY

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5" Coastal Battery at Landguard Bluff, Wanganui, New Zealand.
© Darcy Waters 2005
 

   Looking across the 5"battery toward the river mouth

Looking across the 5"battery toward the river mouth.
5" emplacement in foreground while behind right of it is the observation/command post..
(Photo taken 2-1-2005 ©Darcy Waters)

5" Coastal Battery emplacement

5" Coastal Battery emplacement
(magazine set into hill at rear of emplacement).
(Photo taken 2-1-2005 ©Darcy Waters)

 

Round Pillbox? just off the end of Morgan St, Castlecliff

Observation/Command post for 5" Battery.
(Photo taken 2-1-2005 ©Darcy Waters)


Darcy Waters,
October 2005


 


     
 

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