Signal Hill
Signal Hill, or Lion's Rump, is a landmark flat-topped hill located in Cape Town, next to Lion's Head and Table Mountain. The hill was also known as "The Lion's Flank", a term now obsolete. Together with Lion's Head, Signal Hill looks like a lion sphinx.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zaian, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 350 metres
- Description: mountain in Cape Town
- Also known as: “Lion’s Rump”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Town Stadium and Bo-Kaap.
Cape Town Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cape Town Stadium is an association football and rugby union stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, that was built as part of the country's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Bo-Kaap
Manor estate
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.
Auwal Mosque
Mosque
Photo: LiebeB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Auwal Mosque, alternatively spelled Awwal, Owal or Owwal, is a mosque in the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa. It was completed in 1794 and was the first mosque established in South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schotsche Kloof and Mouille Point.
Schotsche Kloof
Suburb
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.
Mouille Point
Suburb
Photo: Hilton1949, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mouille Point is an affluent suburb of Cape Town, situated in the Atlantic Seaboard, between the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront and Granger Bay to the east, Green Point to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa. The capital of Western Cape Province, it is also the legislative capital of the nation. Cape Town is on South Africa's southwestern coast close to the Cape of Good Hope, and is the southernmost city on the African continent.
Signal Hill
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.917° or 33° 55′ 1″ southLongitude
18.40391° or 18° 24′ 14″ eastElevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)Open location code
4FRW3CM3+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 287092475OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Signal Hill” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Seinheuwel”
- Asturian: “Signal Hill”
- Cebuano: “Signal Hill (tumoy sa bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Signal Hill”
- Chinese: “信号山”
- Dutch: “Seinheuwel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سيجنال هيل”
- Finnish: “Signal Hill”
- French: “Signal Hill”
- German: “Signal Hill”
- Italian: “Signal Hill”
- Japanese: “シグナル・ヒル”
- Japanese: “シグナルヒル”
- Ladin: “Signal Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Signal Hill”
- Norwegian: “Signal Hill”
- Persian: “تپه سیگنال (کیپتاون)”
- Persian: “تپه سیگنال”
- Russian: “Сигнал-Хилл”
- Slovenian: “Signal Hill”
- Swedish: “Signal Hill, Kapstaden”
- Turkish: “Signal Hill (Cape Town)”
- Turkish: “Signal Hill”
- Venetian: “Signal Hill”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Signal Hill”. Photo: Zaian, Public domain.