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Devil’s Peak

mountain, South Africa

Also known as: Windberg, Windy Mountain

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Cape Town

In Cape Town: The city site
…Bay, on the south by Devil’s Peak, and on the east by marshlands and the sandy Cape Flats beyond. The nearest tillable land was on the lower eastern slopes of Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain and, farther to the southeast, at Rondebosch, Newlands, and Wynberg. From the fortress that protected…
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Table Mountain

In Table Mountain
…Signal Hill (Lion’s Rump); and Devil’s Peak (3,281 feet; formerly Windberg, or Windy Mountain) to the northeast. To the west, along the Atlantic coast, Table Mountain is framed by a series of peaks referred to as the Twelve Apostles.
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