Compassberg

Compassberg
Compassberg Location in South Africa
Highest point
Elevation	2,502 m (8,209 ft)[1]
Prominence	1,012 m (3,320 ft)[2]
Listing	List of mountains in South Africa Ribu
Coordinates	31°45′26″S 24°32′22″E / 31.75722°S 24.53944°E / -31.75722; 24.53944
Geography
Location	Eastern Cape
Parent range	Sneeuberge

Compassberg (Afrikaans: Kompasberg), is a mountain peak of the Sneeuberge range in South Africa. It is located 55 km due north of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape Province. At 2502 metres, it is the highest peak in South Africa outside the Stormberg-Drakensberg massif. It was named by Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon when he accompanied Governor Joachim van Plettenberg on a journey to the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in 1778.^{[citation needed]}

The mountain is composed of sediments of the Beaufort Series in the Karoo System, and extensively intruded by dolerite dikes and sills.