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Point Peron
Wikipedia:
Cape Peron is a headland at Rockingham, at the southern end of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia. The cape is locally known as Point Peron ... [and] was named after the French naturalist and zoologist François Péron, who accompanied the expedition of Nicolas Baudin along the western coast of Australia in 1801. ... From 1942 until 1945, Cape Peron was the site of the "K" Battery complex ...
The former camp, which before that was the barracks for the artillery installation.
References and Links
Wikipedia page for Cape Peron.
Wikipedia note on Peron Battery.
Point Peron “K” Battery Conservation Management Plan for South West Corridor Development Foundation Inc., 2016, pdf.
Perthurbex page for the Point Peron Coastal Defence Battery.
WA Govt planning brochure (pdf, 8pp.), August 2021.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 15 April, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/places/peron.html (it was last updated on 23 July, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.