Signal Station

Signal Hill Battery or Signal Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of . The battery was mounted high on the rock. Little remains today as the top station was built on the site of the old battery.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Rock and Bellman’s Cave.

Peak
Photo: Gibnews, Public domain.
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 .

Cave
Photo: Rockysantos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This is a list of all discovered in .

Cave
Photo: AquilaGib, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a limestone cave on the which has yielded stone artifacts of Mousterian tradition. It was discovered in 1975. It is so named as an ibex skull was found within the cave which would have been hunted by the Neanderthals of Gibraltar thousands of years ago. is situated 120 metres north of Signal Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Side and Coaling Island.

Hamlet
Photo: Malcolm Tredinnick, CC BY 2.0.
Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing in , on the eastern side of away from Westside.

Locality
Photo: Mrjohncummings, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area of reclaimed land in the British Overseas Territory of . It is located at the centre of the western end of Gibraltar Harbour as one of its industrial zones.

Locality
Photo: Itto Ogami, CC BY 3.0.
The is a breakwater located in the southern section of Gibraltar Harbour, in the British Overseas Territory of , at the southern end of the .

Signal Station

Latitude
36.13368° or 36° 8′ 1″ north
Longitude
-5.3457° or 5° 20′ 45″ west
Open location code
8C8P4MM3+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 186437099
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
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