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Mount Eddy
Mount Eddy, 9,025 ft (2,751 m), highest peak of the Klamath Mountains in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California; also called the Eddy Range highpoint, with the Mount Eddy Research Natural Area and Deadfall Lakes.
Mount Edgcumbe
Mount Edgcumbe, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall: former seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, a Grade I registered 205-hectare park and garden with a 1547-1550 Tudor house, Italian, French, and English gardens, and the UK's foremost camellia collection, a country park since 1971.
Mount Edgell
Mount Edgell (Edgell, Mount) is a 1,675 m mountain ESE of Cape Jeremy, Fallières Coast, west Antarctic Peninsula. First seen by Charcot's 1908-10 expedition as 'Île Gordon Bennett', renamed in 1936 for Admiral Sir J.A. Edgell; an eroded volcanic centre.
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie is the musical project of Phil Elverum, formerly the Microphones, named for the 2003 album and the peak above Anacortes, Washington; known for No Flashlight, the grief albums A Crow Looked at Me and Now Only, and 2024's Night Palace.
Mount Elbert
Mount Elbert, in Colorado's Sawatch Range near Leadville, is the highest peak in Colorado and the Rockies at about 14,433-14,440 ft and the second-highest in the contiguous United States, named for governor Samuel Hitt Elbert.
Mount Elbrus (Эльбрус)
Mount Elbrus (Эльбрус), a dormant stratovolcano in the Russian Caucasus, is Europe's highest peak at 5,642 m under the watershed boundary convention; Mont Blanc is the rival claimant. First ascents 1829 and 1874.
Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon: extinct shield volcano on the Uganda–Kenya border, oldest in East Africa at about 24 million years, Wagagai summit 4,321 m, 8 km caldera, transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2023.
Mount Elgon Biosphere Reserve
Mount Elgon Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site around the extinct Mount Elgon volcano on the Kenya–Uganda border; designated 2003/2005, made Africa's second transboundary biosphere reserve in 2023, covering over 5,900 km².
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area (峨眉山—乐山大佛): mixed UNESCO World Heritage site in Sichuan, China, inscribed 1996; first Buddhist temple in China, 71 m Leshan Buddha, 3,200 plant species.
Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus, southernmost active volcano on Earth on Ross Island, Antarctica; 3,794 m stratovolcano with a persistent phonolite lava lake active since 1972, Strombolian eruptions, satellite-monitored, and site of the 1979 Air New Zealand TE901 crash.
Mount Erebus disaster
The Mount Erebus disaster was the crash of Air New Zealand Flight TE901, a sightseeing flight, into Mount Erebus in 1979, killing all 257 on board.
Mount Etna
Mount Etna (Etna, Mungibeddu) is Sicily's active stratovolcano, Europe's highest active volcano at about 3,300-3,403 m, erupting for 500,000 years, documented 2,700 years, UNESCO-listed 2013.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (Sagarmatha), Earth's highest mountain at 8,848.86 m on the Nepal-Tibet border, formed by the ongoing India-Eurasia plate collision; first climbed 29 May 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Mount Fairweather
Mount Fairweather, 15,300 ft (4,663 m), highest peak of British Columbia on the Alaska border in Glacier Bay National Park; named by Cook in 1778; first ascent 1931 by Carpé and Moore.
Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park, Tasmania: 15,881 ha park near Hobart, gazetted 1916 with Freycinet as Tasmania's first national parks, home of Russell Falls, the Tarn Shelf, fagus autumn color, and Mount Mawson ski field; in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area since 2013.
Mount Flora
Mount Flora is a 520 m mountain near Hope Bay at the northern tip of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, known for one of the few Jurassic fossil floras in Antarctica.
Mount Foster
Mount Foster is a 2,105 m triple peak on Smith Island, the highest point of the South Shetland Islands, named for Captain Henry Foster (1829) and first climbed in 1996.
Mount Fridtjof Nansen
Mount Fridtjof Nansen is a mountain of about 4,000 m in Antarctica's Queen Maud Range, forming the eastern wall of the Liv Glacier; Amundsen named it in 1911 for Fridtjof Nansen.
Mount Friesland
Mount Friesland, highest peak of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, about 1,700 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains; named by 1820s sealers, first climbed 1991.
Mount Fuji (富士山)
Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan), Japan's highest peak at 3,776 m, is a basaltic stratovolcano 100 km from Tokyo whose last eruption, the 1707 Hōei event, ashed Edo; UNESCO-listed in 2013, it now caps climbers at 4,000 per day.
Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier is South Australia's largest regional city, built on a volcanic complex active about 4,000 years ago whose Blue Lake supplies the city's water and anchors a $215 million visitor economy.
Mount Garibaldi
Mount Garibaldi (Squamish: Nch'ḵay̓, "Dirty Place") is a 2,678 m dacitic stratovolcano at the head of Howe Sound, about 60 km north of Vancouver, and the main volcano of the Garibaldi–Price field in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, the Canadian segment of the Cascade arc; last erupted about 9,500 years ago at Opal Cone.
Mount Gerizim (جبل جرزيم)
Mount Gerizim (جبل جرزيم), near Nablus opposite Mount Ebal, is the sacred mountain of the Samaritans, site of their ancient temple (dated mid-5th century BCE by Magen, contested), destroyed by John Hyrcanus around 110 BCE, and still their place of Passover sacrifice.
Mount Gerizim Temple
The Mount Gerizim Temple, also known as the Samaritan Gerizim Temple, was an ancient Samaritan sanctuary on Mount Gerizim, destroyed by John Hyrcanus in the late second century BCE.
Mount Gilboa
Mount Gilboa (Hebrew Gilboa, Arabic Jebel Faqūʿa) is an upfaulted ridge in northern Israel separating the Jezreel Valley from the Beth-Shean Valley, where King Saul and his sons fell fighting the Philistines.
Mount Guernsey
Mount Guernsey (Ile Guernesey) is an isolated, mainly ice-covered 1,250 m Antarctic Peninsula mountain 6 mi north of Mount Edgell, named in 1909 by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition after the island of Guernsey.
Mount Haddington
Mount Haddington: glacier-covered shield volcano, high point of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula; 1,544 m; largest volcano in Antarctica by diameter and volume; discovered by Ross, 1842.
Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve
Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve (白山ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB site in central Japan designated 1980 and expanded 2016, covers 199,329 ha across four prefectures around the 2,702 m volcano Mount Hakusan.
Mount Halcon
Mount Halcon (Siyaldang), Mindoro's highest peak in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines; a 2,585–2,616 m ultra-prominent mountain, third among Philippine ultras, first climbed in 1906, a 9/9 difficulty climb and a Key Biodiversity Area.
Mount Harper
Mount Harper is the name of several mountains: a Proterozoic volcanic complex peak in Yukon's Ogilvie Mountains, a Kamloops-area peak named for ranchers Jerome and Thaddeus Harper, an Alaska summit honoring Arthur Harper, and Mount Harper/Mahaanui (1,829 m) in Canterbury, New Zealand.