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  2. Coastal fortifications of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    They typically included gun emplacements, pill boxes, fire control or observation posts, camouflage strategies, underground bunkers, sometimes with interconnected tunnels, containing magazines, supply and plotting rooms and protected engine rooms supplying power to the gun turrets and searchlights.

  3. Stony Batter - Wikipedia

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    Stony Batter was part of a counter-bombardment battery system progressively being installed in the Hauraki Gulf from the 1930s. Composed of various gun batteries, such as at Whangaparaoa, Motutapu Island and at Stony Batter, as well as having observation posts such at Rangitoto Island (command post) and Tiritiri Matangi Island, it was supposed to engage enemy naval forces entering the inner gulf.

  4. Harington Point - Wikipedia

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    Gun emplacements [ edit ] The hills behind Harington Point contain several abandoned World War II gun emplacements, a subterranean communications tunnel and bunker, which were all part of the coastal fortifications of New Zealand .

  5. Wrights Hill Fortress - Wikipedia

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    Wrights Hill Fortress is a counter bombardment coastal artillery battery in the Karori suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.It was built between 1942 and 1944 and is predominantly underground, with numerous tunnels linking the war shelters, gun emplacements, magazines, plotting rooms and engine room – which are, at some points, over 50 feet underground.

  6. List of individual weapons of the New Zealand Defence Force

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    Bren gun British Empire: light machine gun.303 British [9] Charlton Automatic Rifle New Zealand: light machine gun.303 British: Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié France British Empire. light machine gun.303 British: Lewis gun British Empire: light machine gun.303 British: Besa machine gun British Empire: Tank-mounted medium machine gun: 7.92mm ...

  7. New Zealand's gun laws, tightened after the 2019 mosque ... - AOL

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    New Zealand’s government will overhaul the tighter gun laws introduced after a deadly mass shooting by a white supremacist five years ago, because they put excessive burdens on gun owners who ...

  8. Coastal defence and fortification - Wikipedia

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    The fortifications were built from British designs adapted to New Zealand conditions. These installations typically included gun emplacements, pill boxes, fire command or observation posts , camouflage strategies, underground bunkers , sometimes with interconnected tunnels, containing magazines , supply and plotting rooms and protected engine ...

  9. Mākara - Wikipedia

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    There are gun emplacements at Fort Opau which still remain. These were built as part of the coastal fortifications of New Zealand due to fears of invasion during the second world war. A small foreshore reserve of sand dunes was bulldozed during this time as it was felt these could be hiding places for an invading army.