Tourists and locals often stop at viewpoints along this road, which offer views of Hout Bay, The Sentinel peak and surrounds, as well as over Noordhoek Beach.

The skipper sent his pilot ashore to find provisions, and the name was recorded as Chapman's Chaunce.

[2] Chapman's Peak Drive was hacked out of the face of the mountain between 1915 and 1922, and at the time was regarded as a major feat of engineering.

[4] The top of Chapman's Peak consists of flat, sedimentary rocks related to those that form Table Mountain.

The base of the mountain, however, consists of Cape Granite and the two formations meet at a geological unconformity that is world-famous amongst earth scientists.