Friday, August 8, 2008

Mountains around the world

Asia

Asia is the major continent in both size and population covering approximately 1/3 of the world's land area and it has about 3/5 of the world's people. It has a number of the world's highest mountains, longest rivers, largest deserts, plains, and plateaus, and thickest forests and jungles.

Nepal

Mount Everest is the uppermost mountain on the earth (measuring from sea level). It rises 8,848 meters over the sea, on the border between Nepal and China.

Japan: Mount Fuji, (uppermost mountain in Japan) 3,776ms
It is a remote volcano, located only 50 miles southwest from Tokyo.

Europe

Britain: Ben Nevis, Scotland 1,343ms

Ben Nevis - Peak Mountain in Great Britain
Snowdon - top mountain in Wales
Scafell Pike - Main Mountain in England (978 meters ~ 3208 feet far above the ground)
Kinder Scout - uppermost peak in the Peak District

Greece: Mount Olympus, Athens 2,917ms
Mount Olympus is the uppermost mountain in Greece.

Turkey: Mount Ararat, 5,165ms
Mount Ararat is a snow-capped volcanic cone, situated in extreme northeast Turkey.

Africa

Africa is the second major continent in area covering about 1/5 of the world's land area and it has the third largest population.
Volcanic activity created most of Africa's highest mountains. The 2 tallest peaks are Mt. Kilimanjaro at 19,340 ft. and Mt. Kenya on 17,058 ft. They are together extinct volcanoes. Even though both mountains go up near to the equator, they have glaciers and are enclosed with snow most of the year.

Tanzania: Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,895ms
The highest mountain in Africa, situated in Northeast Tanzania, near the Kenya border.

Kenya: Mount Kenya, 5,199ms
The second uppermost mountain in Africa. Like Mount Kilimanjaro, it is an extinct volcano.

Australia:

Mt Kosciuszko - Australia, 2228 metres
The highest mountain in Australia, positioned in the extreme southeast bend of the continent. Placed between Melbourne and Sydney in the Australian Alps

South America

Argentina: Aconcagua in Andes 6,960ms
Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Western hemisphere, located in western Argentina, close to the Chile border.

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