Victorian War Heritage Trails AROUND PORT PHILLIP Few Australians Would Know of Commemorates the Anzac Centenary
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1 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL AVIATION MUSEUM A hive of activity With a collection of nearly 50 aircraft, the Australian National Aviation Museum is one of the largest aviation museums in Australia. A DAP Mk21 Beaufighter is on display; and the oldest surviving Beaufort Bomber is currently undergoing restoration. 100 places Moorabbin Airport, Corner First Street and Second Ave, Moorabbin. Open Wed-Fri 10-4, weekends 10-5. for 100 years 2 BANGHOLME MEMORIAL CROSS Wars Australians served in 100 places for 100 years - Victorian War Heritage Trails AROUND PORT PHILLIP Few Australians would know of commemorates the Anzac Centenary. An App and a series of commitments given to New Zealand complementary brochures guide visitors to important war for the Maori Wars (1860-61), the memorials across Victoria by way of eight tour routes from VICTORIAN WAR HERITAGE TRAILS Malayan Emergency (1950, 1960) or North- West Victoria to Central Melbourne to Gippsland. Confrontation (Indonesia, 1964- 66). The free App may be downloaded via the Apple App Store The memorial also lists the names or Google Play Store. The brochures and fold out maps of those who served in Sudan In the modern era, familiar with sophisticated military detailing the eight tour routes may be downloaded at (1885), the Boer War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam and Gulf Wars. operations where drones make air strikes on far-distant http://anzaccentenary.vic.gov.au 790 Frankston-Dandenong Road, Dandenong South. targets, the fortifications around Port Phillip Bay appear The Anzac Centenary provides an opportunity to quaint, part of a simpler bygone era. However, when acknowledge Australia’s contribution to war and the impacts 3 HMAS CERBERUS MUSEUM Training the boys in blue they were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th it had on our nation. 100 places for 100 years enables us HMAS Cerberus is the first, largest to reflect on Anzac traditions and consider the contribution and longest-serving Australian naval Century, they were ‘state of the art’ and our only defence of all Victorians. Between 2014 and 2018 Victoria will join training institute, with around 6,000 against threats from the sea. global commemorations to mark the centenary of the personnel trained each year. The First World War. museum contains one of the largest Moving around Port Phillip Bay, you will visit Fort Nepean; a special and most intriguing collections of place both for its military history and spectacular scenery. The first RAN memorabilia. It focuses on shot fired for both World Wars came from Fort Nepean. HMAS Cerberus’ history of naval training Queenscliff Fort, with its superbly restored buildings, tours and and the growth and evolution of the Colonial and Victorian Navies. activities, provides the counterpoint to Fort Nepean. Between Cook Road, Crib Point. Open Mon-Fri 9.30-2. them, they defended the entry to the bay. When constructed, Britain was at war with Russia in the Crimea and the Russians were 4 FORT NEPEAN Firing the first shot of WWI thought to pose a threat. Later, wars such as the Boer War and WWI Fort Nepean at Port Phillip Heads accentuated the need for coastal protection. protected the narrow entrance to the Your travels will take you to a moving cairn at Queenscliff, the bay from 1870, and became known as ‘ships’ graveyard’, HMAS Cerberus, the premier naval training base, Victoria’s Gibraltar. The fort has other HMAS Castlemaine at Williamstown and other maritime museums. attractions relating to its defence The armed forces cannot be ignored, with a visit to the Australian function: Fort Pearce Barracks (1910) National Aviation Museum and the RAAF Museum at Point Cook, and an elevated area that contained reminding us that air defence replaced coastal security. a disappearing gun called Eagles Nest (1889). Military history, coupled with spectacular scenery, makes this a notable location. Point Nepean National Park. Open 10-5. EA STERN FWY MELBOURNE MAROO NDAH HWY M KOR ORO Y IT CR 5 9 W EEK FORT QUEENSCLIFF Protecting Melbourne MARITIME MUSEUM Incarnations of Osborne House F RD S M E C IN M PR M O From 1870, Fort Queenscliff emerged Built in 1858 as a domestic residence, NA SH M FWY D as the headquarters of a chain of Osborne House has seen many R WERRIBEE K T O T S O O C forts around Port Phillip Heads. changes. Naval college, military N SYN DU T DA N N N N I K C E D A O E N P N N D I S P E O It was operated continuously until hospital, submarine service base, R R A N L G D N G T S N H R D A O W L TION R E E A D Y after WWII. A museum opened in army training centre and now E VI D G A R H S 1982, which displays a diverse range Geelong Maritime Museum: Osborne R A M S M HEATH of artefacts. Activities include tours to House has many stories to tell. The U ERTON H RD C C A the magazines buried under the cliffs at museum contains a treasure trove of B D R Y Y R W Shortland Bluff and the Black Lighthouse. You can even dress up in photographs, ship models flags, uniforms and shipwreck items. S F A DANDENONG CE D IN N PR U O military uniforms! Y Swinburn Street, Geelong. Open Sun-Fri 10-3.30. B W W H E LL Y S E Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff. Guided tours Sat-Sun 1pm, 3pm. R L D L A V 10 B-24 LIBERATOR RESTORATION ‘Boy’s toys’! G N M O O M N 6 PORT PHILLIP DEFENCES: HMAS GOORANGAI MEMORIAL CAIRN R E N Restoration of a B-24 MR Liberator D I N N A G D T First naval loss Y O bomber is occurring in a WWII hanger W N Port Phillip Bay H P S E E C N I on the old Werribee airfield. Liberators, N HMAS Goorangai, a 223-ton auxiliary IN THOM M R S PSON R P U D D L R A D minesweeper sailing under brown- the ultimate strength of the RAAF, E F R W N G R Y N U I R O M out conditions, collided with the helped deter an invasion force of B G L N E O M E L 10,000-ton troopship Duntroon on 50,000 Japanese troops massed GE GEELONG 20 November 1940. Goorangai was in Timor. 33 Liberators, more than FRANKSTON Y W PORTARLINGTON H T 10% of the fleet, were lost in the O R cut in two and sank in a minute. All 24 R M O P O N M D N South- West Pacific during the war. The public can see the R R personnel died. A memorial service is D E T A S BELLA E restoration work in progress. RINE W conducted at the cairn each year. The HWY A Queenscliff Maritime Museum has displays relating to the sinking. Geelong Road, Werribee. Open Tues, Thurs, Sun 9:30-3:30. B Hesse Street, Queenscliff. Museum open Mon-Fri 10:30-4:30, 11 Y RAAF MUSEUM Spiritual homeland of the RAAF W weekends 1:30-4:30. H K T N I R L O Operations at Point Cook RAAF base P A L SU N C N ER NI T 7 SHIPS’ GRAVEYARD N ES No recycling in this ‘ship tip’ commenced in 1914, providing initial PE W C D R S Between 1913 and 1993, 46 obsolete flight training until 1992. Chosen R E D N I for its suitability for both land and L vessels were scuttled in the Ship’s F N O seaplane operations, it expanded T C Graveyard. They range from sailboats S M K N A rapidly during WWII. The museum R and paddle steamers to steamships, F Y HASTINGS D S W UNNS C T F RE O collection documents all aspects E dredges, tugs and a naval patrol A N L K Y U S R IN P N D PE O I of RAAF history. Popular Interactive N N TO ROMANA RD DISNEY ST boat. Long-serving sister naval G BITTERN-D T IN R N C D OR Flying Displays show a heritage aircraft in flight. M vessels, the Batman and Fawkner, P OIN T NE PEAN B EASTBOURNE RD BE RD added to the Victorian Colonial Navy Point Cook Rd, Point Cook. Open Tue-Fri 10-3, Weekends 10-5. LL AR IN E HW in 1883, are among the buried ships. Y 12 Rip View Lookout car park. Walk on the pier for a coastal view. WILLIAMSTOWN FORESHORE A floating museum SHELL RD B Western Port HMAS Castlemaine, a Bathurst-class Q D U 8 JOHNSTONE PARK PEACE MEMORIAL R BELL EE A grand vision minesweeper built at Williamstown E ARINE N L HWY S A C COWS D L S IF N F and launched in 1941, is now a -S WWI was the ‘war to end all wars’, O O L R T R E N N I TO nautical museum at Gem Pier. O FLINDERS and memorials reflect the desire to P F ER R Y commemorate and celebrate peace. The vessel is the last of the 56 who The Peace Memorial Foyer opened in served with the Royal Australian 1926, funded by the community. The Navy remaining afloat. Visitors can names of the 3,500 who enlisted from see how crews lived in wartime.