Contest/Game - Identify this picture - Page 16

fallard · #**151** 11-11-2012

BTW, it's too bad no one provided more background on the photo on Zanshin's post #129. The columns are the ruins of the sail loft at Nelson's Dockyard, English Harbor, Antigua. The loft was above the columns.

Geoff54 · #**152** 11-11-2012

Bare Island Fort, Botany Bay - no idea if that is the same as Fort Banks or not.

tdw · #**153** 11-11-2012

Fallard ..... no but you are close.

I didn't know about that sail loft .... thank you.

Geoff54 · #**154** 11-11-2012

Must be Bare Island then.

tdw · #**155** 11-11-2012

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Originally Posted by Geoff54

Bare Island Fort, Botany Bay - no idea if that is the same as Fort Banks or not.

I confess I had to check that myself. I knew it was Bare Island but didn't know the name of the fort .... imaginatively enough it is Bare Island Fort.

Forts Banks is on Cape Banks barely one nautical mile distant.

BIF was built against the possibility of the Russians invading NSW in the 19th century so it was absolutely pointless. Fort Banks was WWII era.

Geoff54 · #**156** 11-11-2012

'Not sure if this will be very easy or very difficult. 'Looking for the name of the location, not the building and I'll post progressively easier pictures until someone gets it. I think everyone will know of this place even if they haven't been there.

fallard · #**157** 11-11-2012

This one was easy: The Prime Meridian

Geoff54 · #**158** 11-11-2012

I was hoping the slightly unusual angle was going to fool people for a while and then I was going to post various other pictures of Greenwich.

All yours, sir!

fallard · #**159** 11-12-2012

Here's one from the northern hemisphere.

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Hartley18 · #**160** 11-12-2012

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Originally Posted by tdw

I confess I had to check that myself. I knew it was Bare Island but didn't know the name of the fort .... imaginatively enough it is Bare Island Fort.

Forts Banks is on Cape Banks barely one nautical mile distant.

BIF was built against the possibility of the Russians invading NSW in the 19th century so it was absolutely pointless. Fort Banks was WWII era.

Interesting stuff. I've sailed past Botany Bay a couple of times and sailed on Botany Bay a couple of times and must have flown over Botany Bay hundreds of times... and yet never knew a Fort (or two!) was even there.

The things you learn on Sailnet..