You can't really miss it. Its 1086 m above sea level at its
highest point, and is visible from 200 km out at sea. The
top part of the mountain is made up of rocks that were deposited by an ancient glacier hundreds of millions of years
ago. From Table Mountain a 50-km range reaches south-
ward to Cape Point, forming the backbone of the Cape
Peninsula. This Mountain chain is botanist's paradise, with roughly 2 250 plant
species, some of which are found nowhere else in the world. There is even a patch of
land, about the size of the soccer field and known only to a handful of lepidopterists,
on which the world's only colony of certain species of butterfly exists
