Its highest peak is Keeromsberg at 2,072 m that lies 15 km northeast of the town of Worcester.
Some of the highest peaks of the range are located just to the north of Swellendam, in a subrange known as the Clock Peaks whose highest point is the 1,710 m high Misty Point.
Local lore states one can tell the time by means of the shadows cast by the seven summits of the Clock Peaks.
The name is Dutch and means "long mountain" [2] The range runs roughly NW/SE in its western part and in an east-west direction in its mid and eastern section and is approximately 250 km long, from Worcester, past Robertson, Montagu, Swellendam, Heidelberg and Riversdale to the proximity of George.
The Langeberg's most westerly point is located 5 km east of the town of Worcester; the range ends some 20 km North of Mossel Bay in the east.