File:Sightseers on the Nelson Monument, Calton Hill.jpg
Original file (480 × 640 pixels, file size: 48 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionSightseers on the Nelson Monument, Calton Hill.jpg |
English: Sightseers on the viewing platform of the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh. |
Source | Own work |
Author | Kim Traynor |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
"To the memory of Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, and of the great victory of Trafalgar, too dearly purchased with his blood, the grateful citizens of Edinburgh have erected this monument: not to express their unavailing sorrow for his death: nor yet to celebrate the matchless glories of his life, but by his noble example to teach their sons to emulate what they did admire, and like him, when duty requires, to die for their country. MDCCCV."
As well as commemorating Lord Nelson, victor of Trafalgar, the monument is a signal tower. In 1852, a mechanised time-ball was installed on top which drops daily at 1pm and is synchronised with the firing of the Time Gun ('One O'clock Gun') at Edinburgh Castle. Ships in Leith Harbour use these visible and audible signals to set their chronometers accurately.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 23:34, 4 February 2011 | 480 × 640 (48 KB) | Kim Traynor (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Sightseers on the viewing platform of the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh.}} |Source ={{own}} |Author =Kim Traynor |Date = |Permission = |other_versions |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|