Wireless Hill [SEP] continent
Wireless Hill
Wireless Hill is a steep-sided hill with a summit plateau that takes up most of the North Head promontory at the northern end of Australia’s subantarctic Macquarie Island, lying in the Southern Ocean about halfway between Australia and Antarctica. Its highest point is about 100 m above sea level and it is joined to the main body of the island by a low and narrow isthmus that is occasionally wave-washed in heavy storms. Macquarie Island Station, operated by the Australian Antarctic Division and the only permanently populated place
SS "Aeneas" over a distance , the longest distance for any Australian station at the time.
The Wireless Hill station provided the first direct radio communications across the Australian continent, and communicated with bases in the Antarctic, including Mawson Station in the 1950s and 1960s.
The original call sign of the station was POP; by the 1920s it was known as VIP.
During World War I, the station monitored German transmissions, including propaganda from Nauen Transmitter Station in Germany.
Police radio (VK-1) was