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Mount Kumgang (금강산)
Mount Kumgang (금강산, Diamond Mountain) is a ~1,600 m granite sacred mountain in North Korea's Kangwon Province, a Korean Buddhist site since the 5th century, inscribed by UNESCO in 2025 and formerly a 1998–2008 inter-Korean tourist resort now being demolished.
Mount Kumgang Tourist Region
Mount Kumgang Tourist Region (금강산관광지구), a North Korean special tourism zone on Diamond Mountain developed by Hyundai Asan from 1998 for South Korean tourists; about 2 million visitors before the 2008 shooting closure, with South Korean-built facilities demolished 2022-2025.
Mount Kunlun UNESCO Global Geopark
Mount Kunlun UNESCO Global Geopark, China, designated 2015 (GGN records 2014), a geopark in the glaciated Kunlun Mountains of the northern Tibetan Plateau, known for the Kunlun and Xidatan faults, glacial research, and geotourism.
Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon (Jabal Lubnan) is Lebanon's western mountain range, 150-160 km long along the Mediterranean, peaking at Qornet es-Sawda (3,088 m), bounded by the Yammouneh fault, historic refuge of the Druze and Maronites.
Mount Lebanon civil war of 1841
The Mount Lebanon civil war of 1841 (أحداث 1841 في جبل لبنان) was an armed conflict between Maronite Christians and Druze that ended the Shihabi emirate.
Mount Lebanon civil war of 1860
The Mount Lebanon civil war of 1860 (أحداث 1860 في جبل لبنان) was a conflict between Druze militias and Maronite Christians that widened into an attack on Damascus's Christian quarter.
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
The Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (متصرفية جبل لبنان) was a semi-autonomous Ottoman district in the Lebanon mountains, created in 1861 after the civil war of 1860.
Mount Lister
Mount Lister, highest peak (4,025 m; NZ records 4,069 m) of the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica, at 78°04'S 162°41'E; discovered January 1902 by Scott's expedition and named for Lord Joseph Lister; first climbed 1962.
Mount Logan
Mount Logan is Canada's highest peak at 5,959 m and North America's second-highest after Denali, in Kluane National Park, Yukon. First climbed in 1925 by a MacCarthy-led team; King Trench is the standard route.
Mount Loolmalasin
Mount Loolmalasin, also spelled Loolmalassin, is a composite volcano in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, commonly ranked the country's third-highest mountain after Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.
Mount Lu (庐山)
Mount Lu (庐山, Lushan) is a 1,474 m mountain in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, between the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake; a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape since 1996, famed for Donglin Temple, White Deer Cave Academy, and its summer-capital political history.
Mount Madiac
Mount Madiac, alternate name of Mount Madja-as (Madjaas), highest peak of Panay island, Philippines, in Antique province; 2,117 m elevation and prominence, an ultra, ninth of the Philippine ultras, second highest in the Visayas after Kanlaon.
Mount Malindang
Mount Malindang is a 2,404 m extinct stratovolcano in Misamis Occidental, Mindanao, Philippines, the highest peak of the Malindang Range Natural Park, an ASEAN Heritage Park (2011), Subanen ancestral domain, and watershed for over a million people.
Mount Mantaling
Mount Mantaling (Mantalingajan), southern Palawan, Philippines: highest peak in Palawan at 2,085–2,086 m, sacred to indigenous Palaw'an people, core of the 120,457-ha Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (Proclamation 1815, 2009), a Key Biodiversity Area and UNESCO tentative site.
Mount Marion mine
Mount Marion mine (Mt Marion) is an open-pit spodumene lithium mine about 40 kilometers southwest of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, jointly owned by Mineral Resources and Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium.
Mount Martine
Mount Martine is a roughly 800 m mountain on the north coast of Charcot Island, Antarctica, named Sommet Martine in 1910 for Martine Charcot, daughter of explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot; also gazetteered as Martine, Mount.
Mount Maunganui
Mount Maunganui (Mauao) is a coastal suburb of Tauranga, New Zealand, on a tombolo between harbour and ocean, named for the 252 m dormant volcanic cone sacred to Tauranga Moana iwi, returned to them in 2007.
Mount Mazama
Mount Mazama was a 3,700 m Cascade stratovolcano complex in southern Oregon that collapsed 7,700 years ago in a ~50 km³ rhyodacite eruption, forming Crater Lake caldera, the deepest lake in the United States.
Mount McMaster
Mount McMaster is a mountain in Enderby Land, East Antarctica, at 66.62°S 51.20°E, named 7 December 1976 for A. McMaster, an ANARE Enderby Land Survey Party surveyor; SCAR lists it at 861.5 m.
Mount Merapi
Mount Merapi (Gunung Merapi) is an active stratovolcano in Central Java, Indonesia, rising to 2,910 m north of Yogyakarta, with nearly 80 recorded eruptions since 1672.
Mount Meru (मेरु)
Mount Meru (मेरु; Sumeru in Pali) is the golden world-mountain at the axis of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cosmology, center of Jambudvipa, seat of Brahma, echoed in Angkor Wat and Balinese temple architecture.
Mount Minto
Mount Minto, 4,165 m, is the highest peak of the Admiralty Mountains and northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Named by Ross in 1841 for Earl Minto; first climbed February 1988 by Greg Mortimer's Australian party via the south ridge.
Mount Mitchell
Mount Mitchell, 6,684 ft (2,037 m), is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, in the Black Mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina. Measured by Elisha Mitchell in 1835; site of North Carolina's first state park (1915).
Mount Monadnock
Mount Monadnock (Grand Monadnock) is a 3,165-foot isolated peak in Jaffrey, Dublin, and Marlborough, New Hampshire, the namesake of the geological term monadnock, a National Natural Landmark since 1987, and often cited as the world's second most climbed mountain after Mount Fuji.
Mount Monique
Mount Monique, also monte Monique or monte Mónica, is a roughly 600 m mountain on the north coast of Charcot Island, Antarctica, discovered 11 January 1910 by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition and named for his daughter Monique Charcot.
Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve
Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 in southern Malawi near Mozambique, covers 85,894 ha around the Mulanje Massif (Sapitwa Peak 3,002 m), home of the critically endangered Mulanje cedar and a 2025 World Heritage cultural landscape.
Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape, UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2025 in southern Malawi (dossier 1201rev), 89,549.18 ha, criteria (iii) and (vi); sacred associative landscape of Yao, Mang'anja, and Lhomwe peoples around Mulanje Mountain, Malawi's third World Heritage site.
Mount Myohyang Biosphere Reserve
Mount Myohyang Biosphere Reserve (묘향산생물권보전지역), a UNESCO MAB reserve in DPRK designated May 2009, 96.82 km2, on a sacred granite mountain with Pohyon Temple and Tangun legends, also a Key Biodiversity Area and 2026 mixed World Heritage tentative site.
Mount Namuli
Mount Namuli (Monte Namúli), a 2,419 m granitic inselberg massif in Gurué District, Zambézia, Mozambique; the country's second highest point, a Key Biodiversity Area, Important Plant Area, and Lomwe sacred site with endemic species and no formal protection.
Mount Nash
Mount Nash, a roughly 1,300 m mountain in the Hutton Mountains, Lassiter Coast, Antarctica, named for Henry R. Nash of the Carnegie Institute after the 1947 Ronne expedition; distinct from Nash Range and Nash Hills.