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!