What is Fort Banks?
[[Image:1aBanksbatrycapebnks0037.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A partially buried gun emplacement that formed part of Fort Banks]] '''Fort Banks''' (also known as the '''Eastern Command Fixed Defences'''), is an old [[World War II]] fort that was used to protect the entrance to [[Botany Bay]]. The fort is located north of Cape Banks in [[La Perouse, New South Wales]] [[Australia]]. ==History== Just before WWII, a small section of land on the Cape Banks Headland that was owned by the New South Wales Golf Club was used by the Australian Army to build a fort. The fort was made so that it could protect Sydney from an attack by a foreign navy ship. The fort had two BL 9.2 inch Mark 10 cannons that were put into concrete gun emplacements (pictured) and barracks that were finished just before the start of WWII. During WWII the [[Henry Head Battery]] was also reopened and had two BL 6 inch cannons. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/068898 |title=068898 &#124; Australian War Memorial |access-date=2007-12-30 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154040/http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/068898 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nswgolfclub.com.au/guests/history.mhtml|title=NSW Golf Club - La Perouse, New South Wales - History|website=www.nswgolfclub.com.au|access-date=2019-02-11|archive-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228184352/https://www.nswgolfclub.com.au/guests/history.mhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Image:1aBanksbatrycapebnks0033.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Looking south over the gun emplacement<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/gl.accept_login?screen_name=cas_search_pkg.pr_search_by_link&screen_parms=acid~ps_query_type=accnum~ps_query=130001~ps_query_text=130001&screen_type=BOTTOM|title=Images of Fort Banks during the World War II era|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Barracks Batteries Bunkers and Forts in Sydney}} [[cate