Fort Resolution

Fort Resolution was built in 1885 on the end of Point Resolution, to cover the inner harbour. A musketry parapet was built with a small drawbridge as an entrance. Two 64 pounder RMLs were mounted with a brick magazine between them on the same level reached by a covered passage between the guns. The gun platforms were built of timber beams with the gaps filled in with concrete. There was no observation post, and the work was predominately made of earth and timber. The fort was predominately used for training purposes.

In 1893 the fort was totally rebuilt. All the decaying timber work in the gun platforms, pits and passages was replaced with concrete, the magazine expanded and the rear passage removed, an observation post was built above the magazine. It was still only used for practice purposes, never being linked to the main Fire Commanders Post on Mt Victoria.

In 1904 the fort was abandoned and the guns placed on display in Albert Park. The site was gifted to the council as a park and the fort was leveled. The outlines of the remains of magazine and gun emplacements can occasionally be seen in the grass and an excavation in 1991 found the partially destroyed magazine.