Australia - Guinea - New Zealand
1966 - Australian shipping control tower : A 67 meter (250-ft) tall concrete and steel tower. has been added to the skyline of Sydney, Australia's longest city and busiest port, as an aid to shipping. The tower is the New South Wales Maritime services boards new port operations and communications center. The tower, which occupies a strategic position inside harbour, oversees shipping movement in the port area and fetches out by radio telephone to guide all shipping within a 75 kilometer (50 mile) radius of the city. The tower, which offers a 360 degree view of one of the busiest and most attractive ports in the world, enables operators to overdress the 8000 somrate borthng operation carried out in the port each year. Looking east towards the entrance to Sydney Harbour, operators in the new tower can view this section of the wharf area, the Harbour Bridges and the Sydney Opera House, Australian information Service photograph by Bill Payne. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)
