Signal Hill
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Signal Hill rises to 350 m. Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) stands 1,086 m to the south-southeast, 3.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin, a historic site 1.0 miles away. 59 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
The story
Signal Hill (Afrikaans: Seinheuwel), or Lion's Rump, is a landmark flat-topped hill located in Cape Town, next to Lion's Head and Table Mountain. The hill was also known as "The Lion's Flank", a term now obsolete. Together with Lion's Head, Signal Hill looks like a lion sphinx.
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Wikidata Q2094786, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 350 m
How to reach it
59 named places within 25 miles
- Lion's Head: 1.5 mi
- Devil's Peak: 3.3 mi
- Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon): 3.7 mi
- Junction Peak: 4.0 mi
- Fernwood Peak: 4.1 mi
- Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin: 1.0 mi
- Delville Wood Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 1.1 mi
- General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Bartolomeu Dias: 1.4 mi
- The "Blue Train": 1.0 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 9.3 mi
- Die Oog: 9.4 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 9.9 mi
- Nitida Winery: 12.3 mi
- Atla's Pool: 9.9 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 12.7 mi
- Tyger Falls: 13.2 mi
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 8.3 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 8.9 mi
- The Bronze Leopard: 9.4 mi
- Pepper Tree Art Stable: 20.1 mi
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 6.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Signal Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) | SSE 160° | 1,086 m | 3.7 mi |
| Fernwood Peak | SSE 161° | 1,003.1 m | 4.1 mi |
| Devil's Peak | SE 141° | 1,000.5 m | 3.3 mi |
| Constantiaberg | S 186° | 927.7 m | 9.5 mi |
| Junction Peak | S 170° | 919 m | 4.0 mi |
| Grootkop | SSW 197° | 857 m | 5.5 mi |
| Reserve Peak | S 175° | 844 m | 4.5 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | S 187° | 764 m | 10.8 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 | 17:46 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 05:33 | 19:21 | 19:57 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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