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Maclear’s Beacon

stone-cairn beacon, South Africa

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In Table Mountain
The highest point is Maclear’s Beacon (3,563 feet), which is named for a stone-cairn trigonometrical beacon placed on the northeastern face by Sir Thomas Maclear in the 19th century.
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