Grootkop
Grootkop rises to 857 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the east-northeast, 3.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Judas Peak, a peak 1.0 miles away. 60 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
The story
Hill near Cape Town, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa.
Wikidata Q31410781, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 857 m
How to reach it
60 named places within 25 miles
- Judas Peak: 1.0 mi
- Eagles' Nest: 1.9 mi
- Reserve Peak: 2.1 mi
- Little Lion's Head: 2.5 mi
- Junction Peak: 2.6 mi
- Orange Kloof pumphouse: 1.3 mi
- East Fort: 4.4 mi
- West Fort: 4.7 mi
- General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 4.3 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 4.9 mi
- Die Oog: 5.6 mi
- The "Blue Train": 6.3 mi
- Fresh Fish: 10.4 mi
- Atla's Pool: 4.5 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 8.1 mi
- Tyger Falls: 16.6 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 2.8 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 3.4 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 1.2 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 4.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Grootkop. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | ENE 59° | 1,086 m | 3.4 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | ENE 66° | 1,003 m | 3.3 mi |
| Devil's Peak | NE 55° | 1,001 m | 4.5 mi |
| Constantiaberg | S 172° | 928 m | 4.3 mi |
| Junction Peak | ENE 61° | 919 m | 2.6 mi |
| Reserve Peak | ENE 71° | 844 m | 2.1 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | S 177° | 764 m | 5.6 mi |
| Judas Peak | SW 234° | 758 m | 1.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:27 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 07:52 | 17:07 | 17:46 |
| 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/848612165
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