Golf Hill Battery (Victoria)
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military, place with historical importance, fortification, artillery battery
(1940 - 1944), Esquimalt
Two 12-pounder quick-firing AMTB guns were located here, transferred from Black Rock Battery. A searchlight position was nearby at McLaughlin Point. The battery still exists, but no public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Two 12-pounder quick-firing AMTB guns were located here, transferred from Black Rock Battery. A searchlight position was nearby at McLaughlin Point. The battery still exists, but no public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°25'15"N 123°24'5"W
- Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Rocky Point 17 km
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) Ault Field 52 km
- Naval Magazine Indian Island 61 km
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor 87 km
- Jim Creek Naval Radio Station 109 km
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord 147 km
- JBLM North 151 km
- Yakima Training Center 280 km
- Boardman Air Force Range 395 km
- Umatilla Chemical Depot 409 km
- Naval Officer Training Center - VENTURE 0.5 km
- Macaulay Point Park 0.7 km
- Macaulay Elementary School 0.7 km
- Fleming Bay 0.8 km
- Inner Harbour 0.9 km
- Old Esquimalt 1.2 km
- Saxe Point Park 1.2 km
- Esquimalt 1.8 km
- The Gorge Waterway / Portage Inlet 2.8 km
- Esquimalt Harbour 3.7 km
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