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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Mountain ranges of the Atlas ... Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Africa" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
Mountain ranges of South Africa (2 C, 12 P) Mountain ranges of South Sudan (1 P) Mountain ranges of Sudan (1 C, 3 P) T. Mountain ranges of Tanzania (2 C, 19 P)
Jamish Brown, Climbing in the Atlas Mountains, The Alpine Journal, 2002, pp. 81–91. Des Clark, Mountaineering in the Moroccan High Atlas, Cicerone, 2011; Bernhard Lindahl, Local History of Ethiopia, 2005/2008 (for verification of names) Lists and/or maps covering all peaks in the world with 1500 m+ prominence at Peaklist.org
The list includes chains of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys. Some ranges in South Africa are relatively isolated, while others are physiographically part of larger geographical ranges such as the Drakensberg.
The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa.It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the name "Atlantic" is derived from the mountain range, which stretches around 2,500 km (1,600 mi) through Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface. [1] Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of 30,368,609 km 2 (11,725,385 sq mi), excluding adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Kilimanjaro; its largest lake is Lake Victoria.
This article lists the highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Africa defined physiographically. Not all points in this list are mountains or hills, some are simply elevations that are not distinguishable as geographical features. Notes are provided where territorial disputes or inconsistencies affect the listings.
A map of the Kibo cone on Mount Kilimanjaro was published by the British government's Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) in 1964 based on aerial photography conducted in 1962 as the "Subset of Kilimanjaro, East Africa (Tanganyika) Series Y742, Sheet 56/2, D.O.S. 422 1964, Edition 1, Scale 1:50,000". [18]