Noon Day Gun

The noon cannon is an old living tradition in Cape Town, and it is one of those little special things that characterize Cape Town and make it an interesting place to visit, and there are two of the oldest cannons in use in the world that are still in daily use, and this tradition has succeeded Somehow, in surviving a Dutch and then British colony, the return of Dutch control, British expansion, the Anglo-Poer War, the rise and fall of apartheid and the subsequent new democracy, this point is still used for viewing the region, and today it is launched electronically from the observatory. In South Africa, at the observatory, its accuracy comes from an atomic clock.