South Channel Fort Island
Ingrid Petterson as Island – Woman (#cf69) for The Island Play (written by Scott Welsh).
Photography: Lance Youston.
Creative Occupation stock image at South Channel Fort Island, 2018.
A “man-made” artificial island and fort in the waters around Port Phillip: constructed in the 1880s for military defences of the Victorian Colony, it became redundant since the 1920s, providing a site for birds and seals; rocks are making a habitat for marine life.
The encounter with South Channel Fort Island drives the Creative Occupation project that originally developed this collective.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters on which South Channel Fort Island is built in Nairm/Port Phillip, the Boon Wurrung People. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging.