Follow the Brisbane River down toward the sea, past the wharves and the industry of the port, and you arrive at a strange and unexpected survivor. Tucked among the tanks

Most people would not expect to find a British fortress in Indonesia, a land ruled for centuries by the Dutch, and that is exactly what makes Fort Marlborough so surprising

Drive to the very tip of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land narrows to a thin finger of sand and limestone between Port Phillip and the open sea, and you

On the western side of the narrow entrance to Port Phillip, where the little seaside town of Queenscliff looks across the water toward Point Nepean, stands one of the most

Some fortresses hide a second, older fortress within their walls, and Fort Rotterdam is one of them. Standing on the waterfront of Makassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, this

Some monuments are great in size, and some are great in significance, and Fort San Pedro in the city of Cebu belongs firmly to the second kind. The oldest and

Some fortresses are remembered for the battles fought at their walls, but Fort Santiago is remembered above all for what happened within them. Standing at the mouth of the Pasig

Imagine a long, narrow sliver of coral and stone, barely three kilometres from end to end, lying in the warm blue water off the coast of northern Mozambique. It is

Stand on the grassy crown of Flagstaff Hill on a clear Newcastle morning, and you will feel why the army wanted this ground. The Tasman Sea stretches out ahead of

At the very tip of the Otago Peninsula, where the land narrows to a windswept headland above the entrance to Otago Harbour, sits one of the most remarkable survivals in