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The Noonday Gun (Chinese: 午炮) is a former naval artillery piece mounted on a small enclosed site near the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter on Hong Kong Island, ...
The Noon Gun has been a historic time signal in Cape Town, South Africa since 1806. It consists of a pair of black powder Dutch naval guns.
A sundial cannon, sundial gun, noon cannon or meridian cannon, also noonday gun is a device consisting of a sundial incorporating a cannon with a fuse that ...
DescriptionNoon-day Gun.JPG, Noonday Gun at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (on platform. furthest from camera). The gun is a QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss. ; Date, 26 December ...
Facts ; Commons category. The Jardines Noonday Gun ; coordinate location. 22.2826, 114.184 ; located in the administrative territorial entity. Hong Kong ; Freebase ...
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Although British rule ended in Hong Kong in 1997, the tradition of the noonday gun is continued by Jardine Matheson. A small crowd will gather for this daily event. Other than noon, the gun is also fired by a Jardines official at midnight every New Year's Day to celebrate the new year.
The Noon Gun dates back as far as 1806, when it was used as a warning signal for ships anchored in Table Bay, and it was fired from the Castle of Good Hope.
The ritual represents one of Cape Town's oldest living traditions. These are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They fire every day at 12 noon sharp, except Sundays and public holidays, and are maintained by the South African Navy.
The History behind the Noon Gun The British decided to fire a cannon at (more or less) noon everyday to act as a time signal for sailors enabling them to check that their marine chronometers were correct.
DescriptionHK CWB Noonday Gun 1.JPG, 怡和午炮 Noon-day Gun User:Sun Victoria ; Date, 29 October 2006 (from Exif) ; Source, No machine-readable source provided.
Die Tradition entstand zur britischen Kolonialzeit und wird von den Jardines aufrechterhalten. Noonday Gun (2007) Die Glocke zum Geschütz (2007) ...
Noonday Gun. construction. The Jardine Noonday Gun. In more languages ... Wikipedia(9 entries). edit. az Günorta topu; de Noonday Gun; en Noonday Gun; fr ...
The Noonday Gun is a former naval artillery piece mounted on a small enclosed site near the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.