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TAMBO TRENCHES
GREAT ALPINE ROAD ENSAY, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
TAMBO TRENCHES
GREAT ALPINE ROAD ENSAY, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
This site is a rare and unique type of inland civil defencive position constructed by a local unit of the Volunteer Defence Corps during the early part of WWII.
This site, although simple in its nature and construction, has important social and historical significance. The site is not necessarily technologically significant in it construction but its positioning and layout offer strategic military interpretation. With the geographic and landscape setting providing important interpretive context for the strategic positioning of the site.
The site is historically significant in clearly illustrating the concerns of the Australian Defence Force and local communities to the potential threat of Japanese invasion to Australia’s a south-east coast.
The setting in mountainous natural bush, overlooking the picturesque Tambo River and surrounding hills, also offers a powerful and engaging realization that the local community believed invasion was a real risk. That this location may have potentially been an important defense position and the scene of potential battle for a strategic route, homes and livelihoods.
The site may be of State or even National significance for its rarity of type being a locally constructed VDC (civil) defence installation. Offering a contrast to the large more formal military defence installation around the Australian coastline.
This site, although simple in its nature and construction, has important social and historical significance. The site is not necessarily technologically significant in it construction but its positioning and layout offer strategic military interpretation. With the geographic and landscape setting providing important interpretive context for the strategic positioning of the site.
The site is historically significant in clearly illustrating the concerns of the Australian Defence Force and local communities to the potential threat of Japanese invasion to Australia’s a south-east coast.
The setting in mountainous natural bush, overlooking the picturesque Tambo River and surrounding hills, also offers a powerful and engaging realization that the local community believed invasion was a real risk. That this location may have potentially been an important defense position and the scene of potential battle for a strategic route, homes and livelihoods.
The site may be of State or even National significance for its rarity of type being a locally constructed VDC (civil) defence installation. Offering a contrast to the large more formal military defence installation around the Australian coastline.
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