Wrights Hill Fortress
Wrights Hill Fortress is a fortified coastal artillery position in the Karori suburb of Wellington , New Zealand .
The facility was built between 1942 and 1947 and is largely underground. Numerous tunnels connect shelters, gun emplacements, stores, rooms for displaying the situation and the engine room. Parts of the facility are located 15 m underground. The fortification was supposed to house three 9.2 "Mk. XV guns, only two were installed. The fort was never used in combat. After the Second World War , both guns were fired three times each, gun number one in 1946 and gun number two in 1947. The impact the bullets in Cook Street were observed and the test shots were considered a success. In 1960 both guns were sold as scrap - ironically to the Japanese, the only nation these guns were supposed to defend Wellington against. The structure of the fort is similar to that of Stony Batter and the Position on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula near Auckland with the same type of gun.
The Wrights Hill Fortress is managed by the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society and is open to the New Zealand holidays, Waitangi Day , ANZAC Day , Queen's Birthday, and Labor Day, and by appointment. The fortress is classified as a Category I Historic Place in New Zealand .
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- ^ Register of Historic Places . New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Retrieved July 8, 2008.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 43 ′ 48 ″ E