Mount Satima
Mountain in Kenya, East Africa
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::summary Mountain in Kenya, East Africa ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Mount Satima |
| elevation_m | 4001 |
| elevation_ref | |
| prominence_m | 2081 |
| prominence_ref | |
| listing | Ultra |
| Ribu | |
| location | Kenya |
| range | Aberdare Range |
| map | Kenya |
| map_caption | Location in Kenya |
| coordinates | |
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Mount Satima, also known as Mount Lesatima and often abbreviated to Satima or Lesatima, is the third-highest mountain in Kenya and the highest in the Aberdare Range. The Maasai name is Oldoinyo Lesatima, which has a variety of alternative spellings, such as Ol Donyo Le Satima, and means "mountain of the bull calf".
The peak lies at the northern end of the Aberdares, which themselves are along the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley, and is their highest point. Around it stand a number of sharp volcanic cones called "the Dragon's Teeth". There are moraines between 3600 m and 3800 m on the north west of the mountain. One book on Kenya has called the mountain itself "a craggy bluff of rock and tussock grass around which the clouds swirl".
References
References
- [http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/africa.html "Africa Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org.] Listed as "Oldoinyo Lesatima". Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ''New Encyclopædia Britannica'' vol. 1 (2005): "The range has an average elevation of 11000 feet (3350 m) and culminates in Oldoinyo Lesatima (13120 feet [3999 m]) and Ilkinangop (12815 feet [3906 m])."
- Mary Fitzpatrick, Matthew Fletcher, David Wenk, ''Trekking in East Africa'' (Lonely Planet Publications, 2003), p. 190
- ''Fodor's Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles'' (Fodor's Travel Publications, 1990), p. 65
- S. Hastenrath, ''The glaciers of equatorial East Africa'' (1984), p. 58
- Mohamed Amin, Duncan Willetts, Brian Tetley, ''Kenya: the magic land'' (Bodley Head, 1988), p. 126
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