MT. NOORINBEE


Lat / Long GDA -37.504897, 149.118152 Approx
Department FCV...etc...DEECA
Work Depot ?
Region Gippsland
Grading Secondary
Elevation (ASL) 260m
Height ?m
Construction Timber
Cabin size ?m x ?m
Public access to site ??
In use since 19?? - 1983
CFA Region ??
Photo (1983) and information supplied by Jill Redwood
Jill worked on it part time during the 82-83 season. Derrick Broome was the long term spotter when Jill lived in Cann River. He has since died. The tower was west of Noorinbee and it survived the 1983 fires that burnt that area, but it burnt down during a FRB that Autumn!

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Tower site; June 2010
Supplied by Paul Jones
Close-up of footing
Supplied by Paul Jones

Peter Barratt manned the tower during the 1969-70 summer.


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