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The Bronze Leopard

The Bronze Leopard from directly overhead

The Bronze Leopard is an artwork, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the north-northeast, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is East Fort, a historic site 0.5 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.

What the record says

Built
1963-03-14
Material
bronze

How to reach it

Coordinates-34.04898, 18.36088

62 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 32
Historic sites: 15
  • East Fort: 0.5 mi
  • West Fort: 0.9 mi
  • Orange Kloof pumphouse: 4.2 mi
  • Garden of Remembrance: 7.5 mi
  • Rhodes Memorial: 8.7 mi
Attractions: 9
Waterfalls: 3
  • Atla's Pool: 1.1 mi
  • Silvermine Waterfall: 5.3 mi
  • Tyger Falls: 19.4 mi
Museums: 2
Nature reserves: 1
  • Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 2.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Bronze Leopard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon)NNE 33°1,086 m6.8 mi
Fernwood PeakNE 36°1,003.1 m6.5 mi
Devil's PeakNE 35°1,000.5 m8.0 mi
ConstantiabergESE 104°927.7 m1.5 mi
Junction PeakNNE 31°919 m6.1 mi
GrootkopNNE 12°857 m4.0 mi
Reserve PeakNNE 32°844 m5.4 mi
Noordhoek PeakSE 146°764 m2.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2719:00
June solstice07:5317:0717:45
September equinox06:3718:1018:43
December solstice05:3319:2119:58

Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/451066244

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