This is the name given to the promontory separating Sullivans Cove on the north from sandy bay to the south. Its commanding position made it a natural site for the battery of guns (now you know why it’s called Battery Point, mate?) placed here in 1818 to protect the approach to the harbour. Nowadays, there’s no one to really blast out of the water and today Battery Point’s attraction is in its delightfully domesticated 19-th century townscape. There are cottages and villas, and little row houses looking as if they have just been transplanted from late-Georgian England, 8000 miles away on the other side of the earth. Grander altogether is “Narryna”, a solid old stone-fronted home from 1836 which now houses the excellent Van Diemen’s Land Folk Museum. Great stuff here, mate!