Seweweekspoortpiek (Afrikaans for ‘Seven Weeks
Defile
Defile may refer to:
* To make dirty or impure
* Defile (geography), in geography, a narrow pass or gorge between mountains
* Defile (military), to march off in a line
* The Defile, a pass between Suess Glacier and Nussbaum Riegel in Victoria ...
Peak’) is a peak in the
Western Cape
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,
South Africa
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. It is the highest mountain in the
Cape Fold Belt
The Cape Fold Belt is a fold and thrust belt of late Paleozoic age, which affected the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the Cape Supergroup in the southwestern corner of South Africa. It was originally continuous with the Ventana Moun ...
and the highest point in the
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...
province. Along with its western neighbour,
Du Toits Peak, it qualifies as an
Ultra
adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park ...
and these are the only two in the country.
It is located in the
Klein Swartberg range, close to the
Seweweekspoort
Seweweekspoort is a mountain pass located along the R323 regional route running from Zoar and Laingsburg in the western Little Karoo region of South Africa's Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the s ...
mountain pass.
See also
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List of Ultras of Africa
This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Africa. Also shown is Mount Catherine in Sinai, Egypt which is not geographically part of Africa. Not listed here are the 5 Ultras of the Ca ...
References
External links
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* {{cite web , title=''Peaklist: A website for the mountains of the world based on prominence'', url=http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/africa.html, accessdate=2010-03-05
Kannaland Municipality IDP(includes information about Seweweekspoortpiek)
Mountains of the Western Cape
Karoo