Oliver Hill Battery, Rottnest Island, Western Australia during WW2

OLIVER HILL BATTERY
ROTTNEST ISLAND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
DURING WW2

visits since 10 March 2004

Photo: Vic Jeffery

Preserved 9.2 inch gun at Oliver Hill Battery on Rottnest Island. Yet to be restored.

Photo: Vic Jeffery

Restored H1 9.2-inch gun at Oliver Hill Battery on Rottnest Island

Photo: Vic Jeffery

The unrestored H2 9.2-inch gun of the former Oliver Hill Battery on Rottnest Island in
Western Australia. The Wadjemup Hill Lighthouse can be seen in the distance (obscured
by the barrel) with the wartime constructed wooden Port War Signal Station and the brick
observation tower to the right facing the Indian Ocean.

Photo: Vic Jeffery

An internal view of H1 gun house at Oliver Hill Battery
showing the breech of the 9.2-inch gun

Photo: Vic Jeffery

Looking upwards in a restored wartime Army tunnel
at the Oliver Hill Battery. This tunnel system links the
H1 and H2, 9.2-inch guns of the Oliver Hill Battery.

Army Stores buildings on Rottnest Island

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like this thank Vic Jeffery for his assistance with this home page.