User:Specopsaust/Z Experimental Station

Z Experimental Station, also known as "Fairview" and more commonly, as "The House on the Hill", was a WWII era special operations and intelligence training centre for the Inter-Allied Services Department, Services Reconnaissance Department and NEFIS (Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service). Located in Cairns, Far North Queensland, the House on the Hill was an iconic part of life in the far north of Queensland for almost 100 years.

Constructed from silky oak and cedar, the two-storey Fairview homestead was built in 1896 in what is now the Cairns suburb of Mooroobool by Richard Ash Kingsford, Grandfather of Aviation Pioneer Charles Kingsford-Smith. The homestead stood at the top of Munroe's Hill and overlooked the city of Cairns and Trinity Bay. This eventually led to its fate being sealed.

World War II

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Specopsaust (talk) 22:43, 1 February 2010 (UTC)