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Levant Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Windmill Hill at the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve below observation post Fire Control South. It was named after the Levanter cloud below which it perched giving it an unobstructed view. Construction started in 1901 and by 1903 a 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun had been mounted.

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