Chapman's Peak
Chapman's Peak rises to 593 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the north-northeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Chapman's Peak, a peak 0.3 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
The story
Chapman's Peak is a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, between Hout Bay and Noordhoek in Cape Town, South Africa. The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean, and a road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain, linking Hout Bay to Noordhoek. Tourists and locals often stop at viewpoints along this road, which offer views of Hout Bay, The Sentinel peak and surrounds, as well as over Noordhoek Beach. Chapman's Peak Drive is part of the route of two of South Africa's biggest mass-participation races, the Cape Town Cycle Tour and the Two Oceans Marathon.
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Wikidata Q501723, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 592.5 m
How to reach it
62 named places within 25 miles
- Lower Chapman's Peak: 0.3 mi
- Noordhoek Peak: 1.6 mi
- Spitskop: 2.2 mi
- The Sentinel: 2.4 mi
- Constantiaberg: 2.8 mi
- East Fort: 2.3 mi
- West Fort: 2.4 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 5.4 mi
- Orange Kloof pumphouse: 6.7 mi
- Block House 1: 9.8 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 4.6 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 5.0 mi
- Die Oog: 5.8 mi
- Fresh Fish: 5.8 mi
- The Boulders: 9.2 mi
- Atla's Pool: 2.3 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 4.1 mi
- Tyger Falls: 21.3 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 3.3 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 4.0 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 2.7 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 5.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chapman's Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | NNE 24° | 1,086 m | 9.2 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | NNE 26° | 1,003.1 m | 8.9 mi |
| Devil's Peak | NNE 27° | 1,000.5 m | 10.3 mi |
| Constantiaberg | NNE 32° | 927.7 m | 2.8 mi |
| Junction Peak | NNE 22° | 919 m | 8.5 mi |
| Grootkop | N 8° | 857 m | 6.7 mi |
| Reserve Peak | NNE 22° | 844 m | 7.9 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | NE 47° | 764 m | 1.6 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 | 05:32 | 19:21 | 19:58 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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