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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Fort Queenscliff, Portarlington, Victoria, Barwon River, Saint Ignatius College, Geelong, Peninsula Searoad Transport, Bellarine Highway, Ocean Grove Nature Reserve, Breamlea, Victoria, Bellarine Peninsula Railway, Queenscliff, Victoria, Barwon Heads, Victoria, Swan Island, Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, Ocean Grove, Victoria, Reedy Lake, Swan Bay, Borough of Queenscliffe, Clifton Springs, Victoria, St Leonards, Victoria, Murtnaghurt Lagoon, Drysdale railway station, Indented Head, Victoria, Drysdale, Victoria, Port Phillip Bay and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site, Blues Train, Rural City of Bellarine, Lake Connewarre State Wildlife Reserve, Barwon Heads Airport, Queenscliff High Light, Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, Leopold, Victoria, Queenscliff Low Light, Lake Lorne, Queenscliff railway station, Victoria, Collendina, Victoria, Bellarine Rail Trail, Edwards Point, Lake Victoria, Wallington, Victoria, Curlewis, Victoria, Marcus Hill, Victoria, Mannerim, Victoria, Swan Bay, Victoria, St Leonards Salt Lagoon, Duck Island, Queenscliff Music Festival. Excerpt: Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads. Its garrison included volunteer artillery, engineers, infantry and naval militia, and it was manned as a coastal defence installation continuously from 1883 to 1946. The other fortifications and armaments around the Heads were completed by 1891, and together made Port Phillip one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire. The first Allied shots of World War I were fired when a gun at Fort Nepean fired across the bow of the German f...
