Fort Queenscliff

Fort Queenscliff in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was built on Shortland's Bluff to safeguard the passage to Port Phillip. The Fort, which experienced real redevelopment in the late 1880s, turned into the central command for a broad chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads. Its army included volunteer mounted guns, architects, infantry and maritime local army, and it was kept an eye on as a seaside protection establishment constantly from 1883 to 1946. Alternate fortifications and deadly implements around the Heads were finished by 1891, and together made Port Phillip a standout amongst the most intensely shielded harbors in the British Empire.

The main Allied shots of World War I were discharged when a firearm at Fort Nepean shot over the bow of the German vessel Pfalz, as she was endeavoring to escape to sea. The requests to shoot originated from Fort Queenscliff. A similar firearm, with an alternate barrel, additionally discharged the primary Allied shot of World War II. By 1946 waterfront big guns was old fashioned, and the Fort ended up home of the Army Command and Staff College. After the three Service Staff Colleges were joined into the Australian Defense College in Canberra, it turned into the base for Army's Soldier Career Management Agency in 2001.