Fort Mahon
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fortification, Vauban, interesting place, 17th century construction
Fort Mahon (French: Fort d'Ambleteuse or Fort Vauban) is a sea fort by the commune of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais, northern France. The fort was built at the end of the 17th century by the military architect Vauban on the orders of Louis XIV to defend the port in the estuary of the Slack. It was designated a Monument historique in the 1960s.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mahon
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°48'19"N 1°36'1"E
- Battery Todt 4.5 km
- former Batterie Großer Kurfürst 7.1 km
- Cap Gris-Nez 7.6 km
- V-3 Bunker Complex Eastern Site 12 km
- Batterie Lindemann (site) - 3x40.6 cm SK C/34 gun 17 km
- German Artillery Battery MKB Oldenburg (2x28cm) 28 km
- German Artillery Fortress 'MKB Waldau' 30 km
- Gravelines Fort 42 km
- Leffrinckoucke Battery 66 km
- Field Battery Bamburg 90 km
- Golf de Wimereux 2.1 km
- Audresselles 2.2 km
- Battery Todt 4 km
- former Batterie Großer Kurfürst 6.5 km
- Baie de Wissant 8.1 km
- Saint-Martin-Boulogne 9 km
- Time Team Excavation Site Wierre Effroy 10 km
- Carrières de marbre 11 km
- Dover Strait 24 km
- Channel Tunnel 25 km