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Here is my other site on New Zealand's Coastal Defences. It is a slowly growing site that I intend to eventually have a site profile on each gun battery erected in New Zealand.
Click here to visit the site.
Here's a link to a site about a system of air-raid shelters
that were constructed in Auckland.
Click Here to Visit Albert Park
Here's a site that contains a list of all coastal artillery units
of NZ during World War Two. Click Here To Visit
New Zealand Permanent Force Old Comrades' Association site
Here's another site that's about Wellingtons
Coastal Defences. Site created by Darcy Waters.
Darcy has taken a different focus to myself, as he
is looking at all aspects of Wellingtons defence
heritage, not just the coastal forts
Click here to visit Captial Defence
Here are a number of links to pages that
the Department of Conservation runs.
Click here to visit North Head
Click here to visit Stony Batter
Also try running a search of the site,
and typing in key words like: North Head,
Motutapu Island.
Heres a site about the Taiaroa Head Albatross Colony
and Fort Taiaroa. Fort Taiaroa holds the only working
Armstrong disappearing gun in the world.
Click here to visit Taiaroa Head
Heres a link to the Alexander Turnbull Librarys
Web Page, Timeframes. Here it is possible to
view a huge number of photos, which are part
of their collection, and order reproductions if you wish.
Click Here to visit timeframes
Heres a link to the Wellington City Councils
Heritage Building Inventory. This link will take
you straight to the section that deals with the
Kiawharawhara magazines that served Fort Buckley
Click Here to go there.
This link will take you to a piece which ,
amongst other things, gives a brief history
of Mahanga Bay, which was linked with Fort Ballance.
Click Here to go there.
This link takes you to a page that desribes
how Indicator Loops work. I've put this in
because indicator loops were installed in Auckland.
Click here to go there.
Overseas Links
Here is a good site showcasing an Australian Fort
which was built at the time as some of the forts here,
due to the same reason,  the Russian Scare.
Click Here to Visit Fort Lytton
Heres a link to site for the Palmerston Forts
Society. Well worth a look.
Click here to visit the Palmerston Forts Society
Heres an interesting link to the Principality of Sealand.
It was originally a WW2 defence platform just off Britain.
Its interesting, but not of huge relevence to this site.
Click Here to go there.
Heres a link to a site about another Australian Fort
on a place named Bare Island. Click Here to go there.
A fasinating Look at American 8-inch Emplacements
at the Marshall Islands. Click here to have a look.
Coastal Fortifications On the Gulf of Mexico.
Well worth a look to see the American Experiance.
Click here to visit.
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