Macquarie Watchtower
Macquarie Watchtower is a tower in Randwick City Council, New South Wales. Access is restricted and requires permission. Macquarie Watchtower is situated nearby to the park La Perouse Headland, as well as near La Perouse Museum.- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Tower
- Also known as: “Barrack Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kamay Botany Bay National Park and La Perouse Mission Church.
Kamay Botany Bay National Park
Photo: Maurice van Creij, CC BY 3.0.
Kamay Botany Bay National Park is in Sydney, Australia, in two separate sections, one being in the French town of La Perouse in the Eastern Suburbs, and the other being in Kurnell, being south of Botany Bay and east of the famous well known Cronulla.
La Perouse Mission Church
The La Perouse Mission Church is a heritage-listed former church building and now vacant building and unused church located at 46 Adina Avenue, La Perouse, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. La Perouse Mission Church is situated 640 metres north of Macquarie Watchtower.Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park
Cemetery
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Botany General Cemetery, is a cemetery and crematorium on Bunnerong Road in Matraville, New South Wales, in the eastern suburbs district of Sydney, Australia. Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park is situated 1½ km north of Macquarie Watchtower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Perouse and Maroubra.
La Perouse
Photo: Maurice van Creij, CC BY 3.0.
La Perouse is a South-Eastern Suburb of Sydney. It is known for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Kamay-Botany Bay National Park. Congwong Bay Beach, Little Congwong Beach, and the beach at Frenchmans Bay provide protected swimming areas in Botany Bay and its great sunsets at Bare Island.
Maroubra
Maroubra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. It has a popular surfing beach Maroubra Beach. There is a rockpool around the northern point. While many consider it to be one of the best surfing venues, it has an unfortunate, media driven reputation for the tough 'Bra Boys' that surf the area.
Eastern suburbs
Photo: Urgh1962, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eastern Suburbs is the eastern metropolitan region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In the more expansive sense, the Eastern Suburbs refers to the whole area situated to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district, around the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to the Pacific Ocean beaches and continuing on to the port at Botany Bay.
Macquarie Watchtower
- Categories: building, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Randwick City Council, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.98914° or 33° 59′ 21″ southLongitude
151.23249° or 151° 13′ 57″ eastOpen location code
4RRH266J+8XOpenStreetMap ID
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historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
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