Table mountain
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A table mountain is a flat-topped mountain. The term may be used more specifically to refer to a subglacial volcano, which forms a mountain with very steep sides and a flat summit.
Table Mountain is a name given to many mountains around the world:
- Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, perhaps the most famous example
- Crug Hywel (known as "Table Mountain" in English) in the Black Mountains in Wales
- Table Mountain (Washington), a minor peak with sheer cliff face on the Columbia River Gorge in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
- Table Mountain (New York) is one of the Catskill High Peaks in New York
- There are at least two Table Mountains in California:
- one (Wrightwood, site of a scientific station (and after which the asteroid (84882) Table Mountain is named) ) near
- one in Tuolumne County near Jamestown, site of gold-rush mining
- Table Mountain is the name of a Saskatchewan Regional Park located north-west of North Battleford, Saskatchewan
- Table Mountain is the name of an extinct volcano in Queensland, Australia
- Table Mountains is a mountain range in the Sudeten Mountains in Lower Silesia in Poland
- The Tafelberg (mountain) is a table mountain in Suriname