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Drummond Battery

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Drummond Bty (AWM 081440)
Drummond Bty (AWM 081440)

Drummond Battery, also known as Fort Drummond, is a heritage-listed former coastal artillery fortification and now television station and mushroom farm at 1 Television Avenue, Mt Drummond, Mount Saint Thomas, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It was built between 1942 and 1943 by the NSW Public Works Department and NSW Department of Main Roads. The Australian Army used the site from 1942.

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Drummond Battery
The Avenue, Wollongong City Council Mount Saint Thomas

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2500 Wollongong City Council, Mount Saint Thomas
New South Wales, Australia
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