Pinnacles

Pinnacles is a locality in UMngeni Local Municipality, Umgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal. Pinnacles is situated nearby to the hamlet Amber Valley, as well as near the locality Beacons.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hilton College.

Hilton College

School

Photo: Mattpbarry, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hilton College, more commonly referred to as Hilton, is a South African private boarding school for boys located near the town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merrivale and Howick.

Merrivale is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Village 145 km north-west of Durban and 5 km south-east of Howick. Named after Herman Merrivale, Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1848. Merrivale is situated 5 km southwest of Pinnacles.

Howick

Photo: Stevan.Karalic, CC BY 3.0.

Howick is a town of 22,000 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town is the location of Howick Falls, which is a large waterfall that occurs when the Umgeni River falls 95 metres over dolerite cliffs on its way to the Indian Ocean.

Hilton

Suburb

Hilton is a small town that lies between Howick and Pietemaritzburg in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 1872 the Reverend William Orde Newnham opened Hilton College on a large estate 7.8km north of the town, which is now one of South Africa's leading private schools. Hilton is situated 7 km south of Pinnacles.

Pinnacles

Type: Locality
Location: UMngeni Local Municipality, Umgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-29.48662° or 29° 29′ 12″ south

Longitude

30.28599° or 30° 17′ 10″ east

Open location code

5G2GG77P+99

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2290077306

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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