Oliver Hill Battery
World War Two coastal gun emplacement with underground tunnels and a heritage railway up the hill.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Oliver Hill Battery on Rottnest Island follows two threads: the massive nineteen thirty-eight coastal guns built to defend Fremantle Harbour, and the strange story behind the island's own name. It traces the sixteen ninety-six Dutch landing that mistook local wildlife for a plague of giant rats, and the crews who trained here for years for an attack that never arrived. Listen for what grazes the old parade ground today.
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