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Prospect Hill Reservoir

Australia

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

Prospect Hill Reservoir, also known as Prospect water tower or water tower hill, is a heritage-listed water tower situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Built in 1934, the tower is one of the few concrete elevated reservoirs in Sydney, which features Egyptian-style doorways and serves the proximate suburban communities.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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