Nature · Cape Town · Maclear’s Beacon plateau section
Table Mountain: terrain elevation and local relief
Table Mountain uses an approximately 1,082-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,045 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 1,082 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Cape Town · Maclear’s Beacon plateau section
- In feet, rounded
- 3,551.1 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 1082.4 m at -33.966944°, 18.425556°.
- Local base
- 36.9 m at -33.980000°, 18.454167°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 18.396250°, east 18.454583°; south -33.990972°, north -33.942361°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 25.7 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
South African National Parks identifies Maclear’s Beacon as Table Mountain’s highest point and lists it at 1,088 meters. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 1,082 meters in EGM2008 at the selected Maclear’s Beacon coordinate. The broad plateau and adjacent slopes retain their sampled geometry. The lowest point in this window does not establish an agreed geological base or the vertical gain of a particular walking route.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 36.9 meters at -33.980000° latitude, 18.454167° longitude. This produces about 1,045 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Table Mountain uses an approximately 1,082-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,045 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- South African National Parks: Table Mountain hikes, walks and trails
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The 1,088-meter SANParks reference stays separate from the approximately 1,082-meter Maclear’s Beacon surface estimate.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.