Georges Head Lookout

This guide to Georges Head Lookout in Sydney traces two centuries of a fort built for wars that never arrived. It opens in 1801, when forty-four convicts spent two years hand-carving gun batteries into the sandstone against a feared French invasion, then follows the headland's rebuilding decades later against a new phantom enemy, Russia. Along the way it names the governors and engineers who ordered each rebuild, and the guns hauled by hand along what is now Military Road. Step into the cool, dark ring of stone and look toward the harbour entrance.