Rhodes Memorial
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Rhodes Memorial is a historic site, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the west-southwest, 2.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Devil's Peak, a peak 1.1 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
The story
The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. It is a memorial to the English-born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902). Designed by architect Herbert Baker, it was finished in 1912. Rhodes was a mining magnate, founder of the monopolistic De Beers diamond company, influential politician and later prime minister (1890 to 1896) of the British Cape Colony, today a part of the state of South Africa. He had an important and undisputedly partly questionable role in the British imperial policies towards whole southern Africa at the end of the 19th century, a period of colonialism called the Scramble for Africa. Therefore, the existence of the extensive monument has been subject to controversy in present-day South Africa.
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Dates from 1912.
Wikidata Q3429602, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
62 named places within 25 miles
- Devil's Peak: 1.1 mi
- Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon): 2.2 mi
- Fernwood Peak: 2.3 mi
- Junction Peak: 2.9 mi
- Reserve Peak: 3.5 mi
- General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Delville Wood Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Bartolomeu Dias: 3.0 mi
- Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin: 3.0 mi
- The "Blue Train": 4.9 mi
- Die Oog: 6.6 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 9.9 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 10.4 mi
- Nitida Winery: 11.2 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 7.9 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 8.3 mi
- Toy Museum: 22.8 mi
- Atla's Pool: 8.7 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 10.3 mi
- Tyger Falls: 11.0 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 8.7 mi
- Pepper Tree Art Stable: 21.0 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 6.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rhodes Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | WSW 242° | 1,086 m | 2.2 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | SW 232° | 1,003 m | 2.3 mi |
| Devil's Peak | W 262° | 1,001 m | 1.1 mi |
| Constantiaberg | SSW 211° | 928 m | 8.2 mi |
| Junction Peak | WSW 239° | 919 m | 2.9 mi |
| Grootkop | WSW 240° | 857 m | 5.5 mi |
| Reserve Peak | SW 233° | 844 m | 3.5 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | SSW 208° | 764 m | 9.5 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 | 17:45 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 05:32 | 19:20 | 19:57 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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