Gibraltar Cable Car
Gibraltar Cable Car is an aerial tramway in Gibraltar. The base station of the cable car is located near the southern end of Main Street, next to Alameda Gardens.Photo: David Morris, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Aerial lift
- Description: aerial tramway in Gibraltar
- Also known as: “Cable Car Middle Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Rock and Pete’s Paradise Cave.
The Rock
Peak
Photo: Gibnews, Public domain.
The Rock of Gibraltar is a monolithic limestone mountain 426 m high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a narrow 9-kilometre-long promontory stretching due south into the Mediterranean Sea and is located within the British territory of Gibraltar.
Pete’s Paradise Cave
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pete's Paradise Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Explored in the 1960s and 1970s by a team led by George Palao, four skeletons have been unearthed in the cave, two of which were female skeletons with crushed skulls.
Prince Ferdinand’s Battery
Fort
Photo: HJ Mitchell, CC BY 3.0.
Prince Ferdinand's Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Today the area is known as the Apes' Den and is the main location for tourists to see Barbary macaques in Gibraltar. Prince Ferdinand’s Battery is situated 140 metres south of Gibraltar Cable Car.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coaling Island and East Side.
Coaling Island
Locality
Photo: Mrjohncummings, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coaling Island is an area of reclaimed land in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at the centre of the western end of Gibraltar Harbour as one of its industrial zones.
East Side
Hamlet
Photo: Malcolm Tredinnick, CC BY 2.0.
Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from Westside.
Moorish Castle
Neighborhood
Photo: James Cridland, CC BY 2.0.
The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House.
Gibraltar Cable Car
- Categories: aerial tramway, station, and transportation
- Location: Gibraltar, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.13346° or 36° 8′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.34892° or 5° 20′ 56″ westOpen location code
8C8P4MM2+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 1241881430OpenStreetMap feature
aerialway=stationOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationWikidata ID
Q195913
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Gibraltar Cable Car” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “直布羅陀纜車”
- Danish: “Cable Car Gibraltar”
- Finnish: “Gibraltarin köysirata”
- French: “téléphérique de Gibraltar”
- French: “Téléphérique de Gibraltar”
- Hebrew: “רכבל גיברלטר”
- Hungarian: “Gibraltári kötélpálya”
- Indonesian: “Gibraltar Cable Car”
- Japanese: “ジブラルタル・ケーブルカー”
- Korean: “지브롤터 케이블카”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibraltars taubane”
- Norwegian: “Gibraltars taubane”
- Polish: “Gibraltar Cable Car”
- Spanish: “Teleférico de Gibraltar”
- Swedish: “Gibraltar Cable Car”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Apes Den and Genoese Batteries.
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