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Mount Cameroon

Index Mount Cameroon

Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea. [1]

33 relations: Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Cameroon, Cameroon line, Carthage, Cretaceous, Debundscha, Gulf of Guinea, Hanno the Navigator, Hiking, Impatiens etindensis, Impatiens grandisepala, Joseph Merrick (missionary), Lake Nyos, List of elevation extremes by country, List of peaks by prominence, List of volcanoes in Cameroon, Little Mount Cameroon, Mary Kingsley, Metamorphic rock, Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, Points of the compass, Precambrian, Quaternary, Rainforest, Sarah Etonge, Scrambling, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Stratovolcano, Sub-Saharan Africa, Topographic prominence, Ultra-prominent peak, Volcano.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Cameroon

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Cameroon line

The Cameroon line is a chain of volcanoes.

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Carthage

Carthage (from Carthago; Punic:, Qart-ḥadašt, "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Debundscha

Debundscha is a village in the south-western Region of the republic of Cameroon.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Hanno the Navigator

Hanno the Navigator was a Carthaginian explorer of the sixth or fifth century BC, best known for his supposed naval exploration of the western coast of Africa.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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Impatiens etindensis

Impatiens etindensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae.

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Impatiens grandisepala

Impatiens grandisepala is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae.

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Joseph Merrick (missionary)

Joseph Merrick (August 1808 – 22 October 1849) was a Jamaican Baptist missionary who, assisted by Joseph Jackson Fuller, established the first successful mission on the Cameroon coast of Africa.

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Lake Nyos

Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé the capital.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country.

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List of peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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List of volcanoes in Cameroon

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Cameroon.

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Little Mount Cameroon

Little Mount Cameroon, also known as Etinde, is a 1713 m peak on the southern flank of Mount Cameroon.

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Mary Kingsley

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism.

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Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".

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Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope (in French, "La Course de l'Espoir") is an annual, televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Region of Cameroon in January or February.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Sarah Etonge

Sarah Liengu Etonge (born in Buea, Southwest Province, Cameroon) is a current African mountain running star.

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Scrambling

Scrambling (also known as alpine scrambling) is "a walk up steep terrain involving the use of one's hands".

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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56° S to 60° N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cameroon

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