General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial
General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial is a historic site, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the south, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Artillerymen's Memorial, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. 59 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
The story
Jan Smuts Statue in Company Gardens
Dates from 1964.
Wikidata Q30766409, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
59 named places within 25 miles
- Signal Hill: 1.1 mi
- Lion's Head: 1.6 mi
- Devil's Peak: 2.3 mi
- Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon): 2.7 mi
- Fernwood Peak: 3.1 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Delville Wood Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin: 0.1 mi
- Bartolomeu Dias: 1.0 mi
- Rhodes Memorial: 2.9 mi
- The "Blue Train": 2.1 mi
- Die Oog: 8.4 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 9.1 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 9.7 mi
- Nitida Winery: 12.1 mi
- Atla's Pool: 9.2 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 11.9 mi
- Tyger Falls: 12.7 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 7.8 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 8.4 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 8.9 mi
- Pepper Tree Art Stable: 20.4 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 6.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | S 169° | 1,086 m | 2.7 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | SSE 169° | 1,003.1 m | 3.1 mi |
| Devil's Peak | SE 143° | 1,000.5 m | 2.3 mi |
| Constantiaberg | SSW 192° | 927.7 m | 8.9 mi |
| Junction Peak | S 181° | 919 m | 3.1 mi |
| Grootkop | SSW 208° | 857 m | 5.0 mi |
| Reserve Peak | S 185° | 844 m | 3.7 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | SSW 192° | 764 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:26 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 07:52 | 17:07 | 17:46 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 05:33 | 19:21 | 19:57 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/2415449006
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