Hout Bay Museum
Hout Bay Museum is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the northeast, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is The Bronze Leopard, a artwork 0.6 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
The story
Hout Bay Museum is a province-aided museum at 4 Andrews Road in Hout Bay near Cape Town, South Africa. Opened on 5 April 1979, the museum has displays on the history of the Hout Bay valley and its people, focusing on forestry, mining, and the fishing industry up to modern times. The museum also organises weekly guided nature walks into the surrounding mountains. The first curator at Hout Bay Museum was Pam Wormser.
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Dates from 1979.
Wikidata Q5916901, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
62 named places within 25 miles
- Skoorsteenberg: 0.8 mi
- Kapteinspiek: 1.5 mi
- Constantiaberg: 1.7 mi
- The Sentinel: 1.8 mi
- Little Lion's Head: 1.9 mi
- East Fort: 1.1 mi
- West Fort: 1.3 mi
- Orange Kloof pumphouse: 3.7 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 8.0 mi
- Rhodes Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 2.9 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 3.0 mi
- Die Oog: 5.0 mi
- Fresh Fish: 8.0 mi
- The "Blue Train": 9.8 mi
- Atla's Pool: 1.6 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 5.7 mi
- Tyger Falls: 19.1 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 0.6 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 0.7 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 2.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Hout Bay Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | NE 37° | 1,086 m | 6.3 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | NE 40° | 1,003.1 m | 6.0 mi |
| Devil's Peak | NE 38° | 1,000.5 m | 7.5 mi |
| Constantiaberg | ESE 123° | 927.7 m | 1.7 mi |
| Junction Peak | NE 35° | 919 m | 5.6 mi |
| Grootkop | NNE 15° | 857 m | 3.4 mi |
| Reserve Peak | NE 36° | 844 m | 4.9 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | SSE 153° | 764 m | 2.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:27 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 07:53 | 17:07 | 17:45 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 05:33 | 19:21 | 19:58 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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