Observatory Hill Lookout

This guide to Observatory Hill Lookout in Sydney traces the hill's string of failed jobs, starting with a convict-built windmill that collapsed within a decade, then an unfinished fortress ordered after an 1804 convict uprising, designed by the convict-architect Francis Greenway but never completed. It follows the signal flags and station that came next, before the hill finally found a role it kept. Listen for how a colony's frustrations shaped this ridge long before it settled into its current form.