Gibraltar Nature Reserve - Gibraltar
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N 36° 07.261 W 005° 20.757
30S E 288870 N 3999919
Gibraltar Nature Reserve is a protected nature area in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar that covers over 40% of the country's land area. It is an area of considerable natural beauty and one of the main tourist attractions in Gibraltar.
Waymark Code: WMKE53
Location: Gibraltar
Date Posted: 03/29/2014
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At the Nature Reserve you will find some of Gibraltar’s most important historical sites. These include: St Michael’s Cave, Great Siege Tunnels, City Under Siege Exhibition, Moorish Castle, Apes Den, Mediterranean Steps, World War II Tunnels and the old Jewish Cemetery.
The best-known residents are the Barbary Macaques that make the reserve their home. Gibraltar has a reintroduced population of Barbary macaques, the only wild primate species in Europe, the famous Rock Apes. The macaques may be found at the Ape's Den near the middle cable-car station, at the top cable car station, and near the Great Siege Tunnels.
Gibraltar is also a well known and popular bird look out. It is a key migration point and keen bird watchers return year after year to the rock in the hope of spotting the myriad of bird life that use the Strait of Gibraltar as their crossing point to and from north Africa.
The Upper Rock area of the nature reserve can be reached by road or by the Gibraltar Cable Car, next to the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens.
There is a fee to enter the Nature Reserve:
Adult £10.00 (13+ yrs)
Child £5.00 (5-12 yrs)
Infants aged 0-4 years inclusive go FREE
Car: £2.00
Walking £0.50 (excludes entrance into various attractions)
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