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This range is made up of the "High Berg" basalt range, and the "Small Berg" sandstone range. Drakenstein: Dragons stone Mountains: Western Cape: 1,590 m (5,220 ft) Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Du Toitskloof: Du Toit's Canyon: Western Cape: 1,995 m (6,545 ft) Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Gatsrand: Hole Ridge: Gauteng: Groot Swartberge ...
The range lends its name to the Witteberg Series, the uppermost fossiliferous sequence of the Cape System of sedimentary rocks in South Africa. The Witteberg Series (340-375 Ma ) consists of clastic , shoreline deposits of shales, sandstones, and quartzites, [ 1 ] and lies below the plant-bearing and glacial beds of the Lower Karoo System .
The Lebombo Mountains, also called Lubombo Mountains (Portuguese: Montes Libombos), are an 800 km-long (500 mi), narrow range of mountains in Southern Africa. They stretch from Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal in the south to Punda Maria in the Limpopo Province in South Africa in the north. Parts of the mountain range are also found in Mozambique and ...
The Swartberg mountains (black mountain in English) are a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is composed of two main mountain chains running roughly east–west along the northern edge of the semi-arid Little Karoo. To the north of the range lies the other large semi-arid area in South Africa, the Great Karoo. Most ...
The Twelve Apostles are part of the Table Mountain complex overlooking Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa.The mountain range stretches 6 km almost to Hout Bay. [1] They actually consist of eighteen peaks. [1]
The Langeberg Range is a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its highest peak is Keeromsberg at 2,072 m that lies 15 km northeast of the town of Worcester . Some of the highest peaks of the range are located just to the north of Swellendam , in a subrange known as the Clock Peaks whose highest point is the 1,710 m high ...
The Magaliesberg (historically also known as Macalisberg or Cashan Mountains [2]) of northern South Africa, is a modest but well-defined mountain range composed mainly of quartzites. It rises at a point south of the Pilanesberg (and the Pilanesberg National Park ) to form a curved prominence that intersects suburban Pretoria before it peters ...
Descending from the Snow Mountains, a scene near Graaff-Reinet, by William Burchell. The Sneeuberge or Sneeuberg mountain range was historically known as “Sneeuwbergen”, meaning ‘snow mountains’ in Cape Dutch, and refers to a significant portion of Southern Africa's Great Escarpment in the Cradock, Murraysburg, Richmond, Graaff-Reinet, Nieu-Bethesda and Middelburg districts of the ...