Digging Deeper:

   At that time, Noonday Gun is located in East Point, Hong Kong a public auction of land in 1841, Jardine Matheson vote received. At that time, Jardine own gun salute and the garrison team in the East Point for every the Taipan arriving or leaving, will Gun welcome or farewell.

   Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Fall during the original cannon missing. Later, the Royal Navy gift Jardine a cannon that can launch a six-pound shells, to replace the old gun. In 1947, Jardine recovery Noonday gun. 1961, complaints from residents Noonday Gun sound is too large, the Marine Police then recover the gift gun, fired three pounds heavy artillery HotchkissMark1 quick-firing gun substituting one, the gun still in use.

Tip:

   The Noonday Gun is now placed in a small park opposite the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong. If you want to watch from a height, and lunch in the World Trade Center or the Excelsior Hotel inside the restaurant to the sea side, side to enjoy the Noonday Gun airing and Causeway Bay Harbour View.

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D1, Causeway Bay, exit and walk for 10 minutes.