Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon, United States of America, North America

Parliament Building, Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas, West Indies, Central America

Brimstone Hill Fortress, UNESCO World Heritage Site, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

View of one of the two noon guns at Lion Battery on Signal Hill in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas using a wooden ram rod to push the charge into the muzzle of the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas of the South African Navy posing alongside the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. CPO Malgas has been in charge of firing the canon since 1995. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

The noon gun firing in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Two guns in atrium with red carpet, German Historical Museum, Zeughaus, Unter den Linden, Berlin center, Berlin, Germany

Old guns pointed towards the sea on the roof of Walmer Castle, 1540, Walmer, Deal, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Fire fighting boat of the Bonn fire brigade on the Rhine with water jets from two cannon during a display, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Entrance to the fort of Nizwa with two cannons, Oman, Middle East

Cannon, Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta, Central; Havana, Cuba