Gibraltar Chronicle Publication: MoD announces £2m upgrade to Windmill Hill monitoring station

Publication dated: 26th July 2017
The Ministry of Defence is to invest £2m to upgrade ‘Windy Hill’, its maritime monitoring facility overlooking the strategic Strait of Gibraltar. Sitting high above Europa Point, personnel at the monitoring facility keep an eye on 60,000 ships entering or leaving the Mediterranean, or crossing between Africa and Europe.
They also play a crucial role detecting any suspicious activity in British Gibraltar territorial waters and logging any unlawful incursions by Spanish state vessels.
But after more than a century of constant operations keeping an eye on traffic visually, over the radio and electronically, Windmill Hill Signal Station “needs work”, the Royal Navy said.

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