Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro (/ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːroʊ/) di nyɛla dormant volcano zoli din be Tanzania. Dini n-nyɛ zoli din gari zoli kam gbansabila din gbana yaangi zuɣu. Dini n lahi nyɛ highest free-standing mountains above sea level in the world, din nyɛ 5,895 m (19,341 ft) duma ni 4,900 m (16,100 ft) yɛlnŋ . Dini n lahi nyɛ highest volcano n-ti Eastern Hemisphere n-ti pahi fourth most topographically prominent din be duniya.

Toponymy

Kilimanjaro's main peaks are Kibo (left) and Mawenzi (right), as named by the Chagga. They respectively mean "spotted" and "broken top".

Geology and geography

The two highest volcanic cones: Kibo (top) and Mawenzi (bottom)

Kundivihira

Works cited

Academic articles

• Hutchinson, J. A. (1965). The Meaning of Kilimanjaro. Department of Language and Linguistics. University College.
• (March 1960) "Hemingway's Riddle of Kilimanjaro: Idea and Image". American Literature 32 (1): 84–87.
• (November 2006) "Sacred Mountains: Themes and Teachings". Mountain Research and Development 26 (4): 304–309. DOI:[304:SMTAT2.0.CO;2 10.1659/0276-4741(2006)26[304:SMTAT]2.0.CO;2].
• (July 1995) "The Mammals of Kilimanjaro". Journal of East African Natural History 84 (2): 105–139. DOI:[105:TMOK2.0.CO;2 10.2982/0012-8317(1995)84[105:TMOK]2.0.CO;2].
• (2009) "Determinants of Summiting Success and Acute Mountain Sickness on Mt Kilimanjaro (5895 m)". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 20 (4): 311–317. DOI:10.1580/1080-6032-020.004.0311. PMID 20030437.

Books

• Krapf, Johann Ludwig; Ravenstein, Ernest George (1860). Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours, During an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa: Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum, and a Coasting Voyage from Nombaz to Cape Delgado. Trübner and Company, Paternoster Row. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
• Thomson, Joseph (1887). Through Masai land: a journey of exploration among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange tribes of eastern equatorial Africa, authored by Johann Ludwig Krapf and Ernest George Ravenstein, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1887. Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2016-10-04.

External links

• Tɛmplet:Cite gvp
• NASA Earth Explorer page
• Glacial Recession on Kilimanjaro (pictures of southern icefields) Archived 15 Silimin gɔli February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Mount Kilimanjaro live webcam
• Kilimanjaro flora picture gallery
• Aerial photographs of Mount Kilimanjaro, 1937–38

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