Table Mountain

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.

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Located in

Cape Town, South Africa

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.

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