Duntze Head Battery (Victoria)
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military, fortification, artillery battery
(1893 - 1945), Duntze Head, Esquimalt
Two 12-pounder quick-firing guns and two searchlights were located here from 1893 - 1938. In 1939 they were replaced with one 6-pounder twin quick-firing gun and one searchlight. A 75mm gun was temporarily here before the 6-pounder was emplaced. The harbor mine command was here 1900 - 1905. No public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Two 12-pounder quick-firing guns and two searchlights were located here from 1893 - 1938. In 1939 they were replaced with one 6-pounder twin quick-firing gun and one searchlight. A 75mm gun was temporarily here before the 6-pounder was emplaced. The harbor mine command was here 1900 - 1905. No public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°25'52"N 123°26'20"W
- Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Rocky Point 15 km
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) Ault Field 55 km
- Naval Magazine Indian Island 64 km
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor 90 km
- Jim Creek Naval Radio Station 112 km
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord 149 km
- JBLM North 153 km
- Yakima Training Center 283 km
- Boardman Air Force Range 398 km
- Umatilla Chemical Depot 412 km
- Esquimalt Harbour 1.3 km
- Esquimalt Nation Reserve 1.5 km
- Esquimalt 1.8 km
- New Songhees Nation 1A Reserve 1.9 km
- Gorge Vale Golf Club 2.4 km
- Old Esquimalt 2.7 km
- The Gorge Waterway / Portage Inlet 3.3 km
- Inner Harbour 3.9 km
- Tillicum 3.9 km
- Cuthbert Holmes Park 4 km