Manukau Head Battery

Oblique Aerial Photos

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Description: Aerial of Manukau Heads, 5 August 1949. The battery site is to the right of the lighthouse, but isn't really visible in this photo

Reference: Manukau Heads. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-21277-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23083781

Description: Aerial of Manukau Heads, 2 April 1957. The gun emplacement is just visible near the cliff in the middle of the picture

Reference: South Head and Awhitu Peninsula seaward coast with signal tower and Beacon light, Manukau Harbour, Auckland Region. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-43990. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/32052354

Description: Aerial of Manukau Heads, 2 April 1957. The gun emplacement is just visible near the cliff in the middle of the picture

Reference: South Head and Awhitu Peninsula seaward coast, Manukau Harbour, Auckland Region. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-43991. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/32052355

Description: Aerial of Manukau Heads, 16 March 1987. If you look carefully along the clifftop you can see the gun emplacement, which has been seriously undermined and is about to fall over the edge

Reference: South Head, Manukau Harbour, Auckland. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-79486-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22562092