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Australia Today – Fort Denison: [Pinchgut]: A Relic of Early Sydney (1939)

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A well-made fort education content clip 1

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This clip illustrates examples the stonework of the fort, the Martello Tower, and the firing of one of the fort’s guns. The cells of the fort are used to store gunpowder.

Curator’s notes

by Poppy De Souza

Fort Denison’s round stone Martello Tower was one of the last Martello Towers to be built in the then British Empire.