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Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon)
Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon) rises to 1,086 m. Fernwood Peak stands 1,003 m to the south-southeast, 0.4 miles off. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
The story
Trig beacon on Table Mountain, South Africa.
Wikidata Q55621645, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1844-12
- Elevation
- 1,086 m
How to reach it
Coordinates-33.96683, 18.42556
62 named places within 25 miles
Peaks: 31
- Fernwood Peak: 0.4 mi
- Junction Peak: 0.7 mi
- Devil's Peak: 1.2 mi
- Reserve Peak: 1.4 mi
- Lion's Head: 3.0 mi
Historic sites: 14
- Rhodes Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Orange Kloof pumphouse: 2.6 mi
- General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Artillerymen's Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Delville Wood Memorial: 2.7 mi
Attractions: 8
- The "Blue Train": 4.7 mi
- Die Oog: 5.7 mi
- Harvest Capella Shipwreck: 7.7 mi
- BOS 400 Shipwreck: 8.3 mi
- Fresh Fish: 11.3 mi
Museums: 3
- Imizamo Yethu Township Museum: 5.8 mi
- Hout Bay Museum: 6.3 mi
- Toy Museum: 24.8 mi
Waterfalls: 3
- Atla's Pool: 6.9 mi
- Silvermine Waterfall: 9.2 mi
- Tyger Falls: 13.2 mi
Artworks: 2
- The Bronze Leopard: 6.8 mi
- Pepper Tree Art Stable: 22.6 mi
Nature reserves: 1
- Ken Heights Private Nature Reserve: 4.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fernwood Peak | SSE 168° | 1,003 m | 0.4 mi |
| Devil's Peak | NE 45° | 1,001 m | 1.2 mi |
| Constantiaberg | SSW 201° | 928 m | 6.5 mi |
| Junction Peak | SW 229° | 919 m | 0.7 mi |
| Grootkop | WSW 239° | 857 m | 3.4 mi |
| Reserve Peak | SW 219° | 844 m | 1.4 mi |
| Noordhoek Peak | SSW 200° | 764 m | 7.8 mi |
| Judas Peak | WSW 237° | 758 m | 4.4 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 | 05:33 | 19:21 | 19:58 |
Local time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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