Table Mountain

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A table mountain is a flat-topped mountain. The term may be used more specifically to refer to a subglacial volcano, which forms a mountain with very steep sides and a flat summit.

Table Mountain is a name given to many mountains around the world:

Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, perhaps the most famous example
Crug Hywel (known as "Table Mountain" in English) in the Black Mountains in Wales
Table Mountain (Washington), a minor peak with sheer cliff face on the Columbia River Gorge in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
Table Mountain (New York) is one of the Catskill High Peaks in New York
There are at least two Table Mountains in California:
* one ([34.4° N 117.7° W]) near Wrightwood, site of a scientific station (and after which the asteroid (84882) Table Mountain is named)
* one in Tuolumne County near Jamestown, site of gold-rush mining
Table Mountain is the name of a Saskatchewan Regional Park located north-west of North Battleford, Saskatchewan
Table Mountains is a mountain range in the Sudeten Mountains in Lower Silesia

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