Lower Battery
Lower Battery is a fort in Capital Regional District, British Columbia. Lower Battery is situated nearby to the historic building Canteen, as well as near the fort Belmont Battery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine and Esquimalt Lighthouse.
Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine
Bunker
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine is a bunker.
Esquimalt Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Bruce Tuten, CC BY 2.0.
Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, on Fisgard Island at the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia, is the site of Fisgard Lighthouse, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada. Esquimalt Lighthouse is situated 300 metres southeast of Lower Battery.
Esquimalt Lagoon Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esquimalt Lagoon Migratory Bird Sanctuary is a migratory bird sanctuary near Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia. The Esquimalt Lagoon is found on the traditional territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include View Royal and Esquimalt.
View Royal
Town
Photo: John Newcomb, CC BY 3.0.
View Royal is a town in Greater Victoria and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. View Royal has a population of 11,575 residents. View Royal is situated 2½ km northeast of Lower Battery.
Esquimalt
Town
Photo: Kyle Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and… Esquimalt is situated 2½ km east of Lower Battery.
Langford
Photo: John Newcomb, CC BY 3.0.
The City of Langford is a city of over 35,000 people, and is the business hub of "Westshore", a group of municipalities to the west of Victoria. Visitors would primarily enjoy the lakes and trails which are less busy than similar offerings closer to Victoria downtown core.
Lower Battery
- Type: Fort
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.43234° or 48° 25′ 56″ northLongitude
-123.45036° or 123° 27′ 1″ westInception
1895Open location code
84WRCGJX+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 10270733535OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fort
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Canteen and Belmont Battery.
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