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8 unusual facts about Table Mountain


Blue Downs

Picture is taken of these two areas stretching to the west towards Table Mountain.

Cantino planisphere

Other illustrations include a lion-shaped mountain representing the Sierra Leone mountain range, the Alexandria lighthouse (laid horizontal), the mythical Mountains of the Moon (legendary source of the Nile River) in central Africa, and either the Table Mountain or Drakensberg range in South Africa.

Constellation family

Mensa (the table; originally "Mons Mensa" for table mountain) was named after Table Mountain in South Africa where his observatory was located; the remaining dozen were named after scientific instruments and apparatuses like the telescope, microscope, and reticule.

False Bay

Devil's Peak, Table Mountain, Lion's Head and Signal Hill form an amphitheatre along the western edge of the Cape Flats.

Knysna Warbler

A small population of about 40 pairs exists on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town.

Southern Cross Drive

'Southern Cross Drive' is also the name of an important arterial road in Cape Town, South Africa, on the eastern side of Table Mountain.

Stuart Leary

His body was discovered dead on Table Mountain in South Africa on 23 August 1988; it was believed he had died two days earlier.

Three Peaks Challenge

The challenge comprises ascending the three major peaks above Cape Town, namely Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and Lion's Head.


Black girdled lizard

The black girdled lizard, Cordylus niger, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan.

Edmund February

Named after one of the two climbers first confirmed to reach the summit of Everest, Edmund Hillary, and living in the shadow of Table Mountain, Edmund was destined to be a climber.

Oranjezicht

The Molteno Dam was built in 1877, to provide water for Cape Town by storing natural spring water from Table Mountain.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Saltoblattella montistabularis

Saltoblattella montistabularis or leaproach is a new species of cockroach, from the Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, discovered in 2009.

Spelaeogriphacea

Of the three genera, Potiicoara is known only from a cave in Brazil's Mato Grosso, Spelaeogriphus only from a cave on Table Mountain in South Africa, and the two Mangkurtu species only from individual Australian aquifers.


see also

106th Hazara Pioneers

In 1918, the whole regiment proceeded to Mesopotamia where, after serving for some months with the 18th Indian Division on the Tigris above Baghdad, they joined the 2nd Corps and were employed in helping the drive the railway through the Jabal Hamrin from Table Mountain on the Dajla (Tigris River).

2012 Washington state wildfires

Located east of U.S. Highway 97 near Blewett Pass in Kittitas County, the Table Mountain Fire threatened homes and historic structures near Liberty, Washington.

84882 Table Mountain

Named for the discoverer's workplace Table Mountain Observatory, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924.

Kommetjie

The area is a popular spot for surfing, since powerful waves from the Atlantic Ocean rise up over rocky reefs formed by hard sandstones of the Table Mountain Group.

Losiny Ostrov National Park

It is located in Moscow and Moscow Oblast and is the third largest forest in a city of comparable size, after Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town) and Pedra Branca State Park (Rio de Janeiro).

Silvermine

Silvermine Nature Reserve, part of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town

Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

An abandoned USAF Pinetree Line radar site is located on nearby Table Mountain, north of the town.