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Date: 1942 Type: Guard House Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°47'57.24" S 18°22'25.69" E Alt: 4m

The concrete walls were cast up against the sand bags which have since been removed leaving the relief impression of the filled sand bags as the finish to the outside wall. The machine gun emplacement is sited on the approach to the Maximum Security Prison from the harbour entrance. William Martinson, Osmond Lange Architects, January 2019 Books that reference Machine Gun Emplacement Deacon, Harriet Ed. 1996. The island : A History of Robben Island, 1488-1990. Cape Town: Mayibuye Books David Philips Publishers. pg 84