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 (34.4° N 117.7° W) near Wrightwood, site of a scientific station (and after which the asteroid (84882) Table Mountain is named)
    • 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
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