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Table Mountain

Type Flat-topped Mountain
Height 3,558 ft
Prominence 3,461 ft

Learning Point

  • Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain that dominates the landscape of Cape Town, forming part of a chain of mountains that is the spine of the peninsula. It is full of diverse life and is high enough to give amazing views of the ocean below.

Project

  • Draw a picture of Table Mountain and write some facts about it with your picture.
  • Overview
  • Formation
Table Mountain
By Muhammad Mahdi Karim – Own work, GFDL 1.2, Link
Formation of Table Mountain
Hermann Burmeister (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Location

Located in Cape Town, South Africa

Fun Facts

  • The name of Table Mountain in the Khoekhoe language (Huriǂoaxa) means “sea-emerging“.
  • The National Park that makes up the area that includes the mountain is the most visited national park in South Africa.
  • The flat top of the mountain is often covered by orographic clouds, formed when a southeasterly wind is directed up the mountain’s slopes into colder air, where the moisture condenses to form the so-called “table cloth” of cloud.
  • Table Mountain is at the northern end of a sandstone mountain range that forms the spine of the Cape Peninsula that terminates approximately 30 miles to the south at the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point.
  • Fossils have been found in some of the rocks of Table Mountain.
  • Over 8,200 plant species exist in the National Park, with 2,285 estimated to be in the Cape Floral Region section, more than the plant species in the United Kingdom.

Past Lessons

24 May 30, 2022 (North America)
123 July 29, 2024 (North America)
200 June 2, 2026 (North America)
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