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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".[3]

Mount Satima
Mount Satima
Location in Kenya
Highest point
Elevation4,001 m (13,127 ft)[1][2]
Prominence2,081 m (6,827 ft)[1]
ListingUltra
Coordinates0°20′59″S 36°37′00″E
Geography
LocationKenya
Parent rangeAberdare Range

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".[4] There are moraines between 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) and 3,800 metres (12,500 ft) on the north west of the mountain.[5] One book on Kenya has called the mountain itself "a craggy bluff of rock and tussock grass around which the clouds swirl".[6]


See also


Maasai people | Aberdare Range | Cloud forest


References


  1. "Africa Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Listed as "Oldoinyo Lesatima". Retrieved 2012-01-10.
  2. 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])."
  3. Mary Fitzpatrick, Matthew Fletcher, David Wenk, Trekking in East Africa (Lonely Planet Publications, 2003), p. 190
  4. Fodor's Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles (Fodor's Travel Publications, 1990), p. 65
  5. S. Hastenrath, The glaciers of equatorial East Africa (1984), p. 58
  6. Mohamed Amin, Duncan Willetts, Brian Tetley, Kenya: the magic land (Bodley Head, 1988), p. 126



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[de] Oldoinyo Lesatima

Der Oldoinyo Lesatima (andere Schreibweise Ol Donyo Lesatima, auch bekannt als Mount Lesatima oder Mount Satima) ist ein 4001 m hoher Berg in der Aberdare Range in Kenia.[1] Nach Mount Kenia und Mount Elgon ist er der dritthöchste Berg des Landes mit einer Dominanz von 73,3 km[2] und einer Schartenhöhe von 2081 Meter.[1]
- [en] Mount Satima

[fr] Oldoinyo Lesatima

L'Oldoinyo Lesatima, ou Ol Doinyo Le Satima, mont Lesatima ou encore mont Satima, est un sommet culminant à 4 001 mètres d'altitude dans l'Aberdare, dont il constitue le point culminant, au Kenya. Il se situe dans le parc national d'Aberdare.


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