Devil's Peak
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Devil's Peak rises to 1,001 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the southwest, 1.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Rhodes Memorial, a historic site 1.1 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
The story
Devil's Peak is part of the mountainous backdrop to Cape Town, South Africa. When looking at Table Mountain from the city centre, or when looking towards the city across Table Bay, the skyline from left to right consists of Devil's Peak, the flat summit of Table Mountain, the peak of Lion's Head, and Signal Hill. The central districts of Cape Town are located within this natural amphitheatre. The city grew out of a settlement founded on the shore below the mountains in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck, for the Dutch East India Company. Some of the first farms in the Cape were established on the slopes of Devil's Peak, along the Liesbeek River. Devil's Peak stands 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) high, less than Table Mountain's 1,087 metres (3,566 ft), and there are a number of hiking routes to the summit.
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Wikidata Q917040, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1000.5 m
How to reach it
62 named places within 25 miles
- Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon): 1.2 mi
- Fernwood Peak: 1.5 mi
- Junction Peak: 1.9 mi
- Reserve Peak: 2.6 mi
- Lion's Head: 3.2 mi
- Rhodes Memorial: 1.1 mi
- General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Delville Wood Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin: 2.3 mi
- The "Blue Train": 4.3 mi
- Die Oog: 6.5 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 8.9 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 9.5 mi
- Fresh Fish: 12.1 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 7.0 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 7.5 mi
- Toy Museum: 23.9 mi
- Atla's Pool: 8.0 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 10.1 mi
- Tyger Falls: 12.1 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 8.0 mi
- Pepper Tree Art Stable: 21.5 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 5.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Devil's Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | SW 225° | 1,086 m | 1.2 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | SSW 211° | 1,003.1 m | 1.5 mi |
| Constantiaberg | SSW 205° | 927.7 m | 7.6 mi |
| Junction Peak | SW 227° | 919 m | 1.9 mi |
| Grootkop | SW 235° | 857 m | 4.5 mi |
| Reserve Peak | SW 222° | 844 m | 2.6 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | SSW 203° | 764 m | 8.9 mi |
| Judas Peak | SW 235° | 758 m | 5.6 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 | 19:21 | 19:57 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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