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Nike Launch Site LA-43 can be seen in the center foreground. The circular road leads up the hill to the two large, concrete gun emplacements for Battery Paul D. Bunker. Battery Bunker was the only World War II 16-inch seacoast gun battery actually completed for the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles.
The Historic District is within the boundaries of the White Point Nature Preserve. This is one of the largest areas of undeveloped coastline in the Los Angeles area.
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