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Natural history of Mount Kenya. A map showing the vegetation zones around Mount Kenya. The flora and fauna of Mount Kenya are diverse, due to the variation in altitude, rainfall, aspect and temperature. The mountain slopes can be divided into vegetation zones, with each zone having different dominant plant species.
No Picnic on Mount Kenya ( Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. [1] [2] It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian.
Kenya Wildlife Service, Uganda Wildlife Authority. Mount Elgon National Park is a national park in Kenya and Uganda that lies 140 kilometres (87 mi) northeast of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area of 1,279 square kilometres (494 sq mi). The Ugandan part of the park covers 1,110 km 2 (430 sq mi) while the Kenyan part covers 169 km 2 (65 sq mi).
Mount Kenya This 1911 map shows the region around Mount Kenya labelled as Kenya. Mount Kenya received its current name by European missionaries who, wrote the name as 'Kenya' from the Akamba word 'kiinyaa'. The first missionaries, Johann Ludwig Krapf, and Johannes Rebmann, were led into Kenyas interior by Akamba long-distance traders.
Mount Longonot. / 0.91528°S 36.45694°E / -0.91528; 36.45694. Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s. [1] Its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot, meaning "mountains of many spurs" or "steep ridges".
Lake Turkana National Parks. / 3.051306°N 36.503667°E / 3.051306; 36.503667. Lake Turkana National Parks is a group of three national parks located around Lake Turkana in Kenya. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and expanded in 2001. Reasons for the park's importance include its use as a stopping point for ...
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, [2] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
Nanyuki. / 0.017°N 37.067°E / 0.017; 37.067. Nanyuki is a market town in Laikipia County of Kenya lying northwest of Mount Kenya along the A2 road and at the terminus of the branch railway from Nairobi. The name is derived from Enyaanyukie Maasai word for resemblance. It is situated just north of the Equator (0° 01' North).