All articles starting with M
36,687 articles
Mount Nebo (جبل نيبو)
Mount Nebo (جبل نيبو), also Siyagha, is a Jordanian mountain west of Madaba where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land; it hosts a 4th-century basilica, Franciscan Memorial of Moses since 1933, and views to Jerusalem, 46 km away.
Mount Nemrut
Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağ), a 2,150 m peak in Adıyaman, Turkey, bears the hierothesion-tomb of Antiochos I of Commagene: a 50 m tumulus, colossal Greek-Iranian syncretistic statues, and the Lion Horoscope of 62 BCE.
Mount Ngauruhoe
Mount Ngauruhoe (Ngāuruhoe), also called Mount Doom's filming stand-in, is the 2291 m active cone and main vent of the Tongariro complex, New Zealand; once the country's most active volcano, quiet since 1975.
Mount Nyangani (mountain)
Mount Nyangani, formerly Mount Inyangani, is Zimbabwe's highest mountain at 2,592 m (8,504 ft), a dolerite-sill peak in Nyanga National Park, Manicaland, in the Eastern Highlands near Mutare.
Mount Nyiragongo
Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near Goma, known for its persistent lava lake and deadly eruptions in 1977, 2002, and 2021.
Mount Odaigahara, Mount Omine and Osugidani Biosphere Reserve
Mount Odaigahara, Mount Omine and Osugidani Biosphere Reserve (大台ヶ原・大峯山・大杉谷ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Japan's Kii Peninsula, designated 1980, 118,331 ha across Nara and Mie prefectures, with Shugendo heritage and World Heritage Omine range.
Mount of Olives (הר הזיתים)
Mount of Olives (Har HaZeitim, Jebel et-Tur): a ~2-mile limestone ridge east of Jerusalem's Old City, 818 m at its at-Tur summit, home to the world's oldest Jewish cemetery (~150,000 graves) and major Christian holy sites.
Mount of the Holy Cross
Mount of the Holy Cross is a 14,005-foot peak in Colorado's Sawatch Range, named for a cross of snow on its face, first climbed and photographed in 1873.
Mount Okmok
Mount Okmok is an active shield volcano occupying northeastern Umnak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, one of the arc's most active, with major eruptions in 43 BCE, 1997, and 2008.
Mount Olympus (landform)
Mount Olympus landform: covers Greece's highest mountain (2,918 m, Mytikas, first Greek national park 1938, UNESCO World Heritage 2026) and Washington's Olympic Mountains highest peak (7,980 ft, most glaciated, named by Meares), plus Cyprus and Utah namesakes.
Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος)
Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος), Greece's highest mountain at 2,917–2,918 m (Mytikas), mythic home of the twelve Olympian gods; first climbed 1913, national park since 1938, UNESCO World Heritage site 2026.
Mount Ossa (Tasmania)
Mount Ossa (Tasmania) is a 1,617 m dolerite peak in the Pelion Range, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park; Tasmania's highest mountain, named by Charles Gould in the 1860s, climbed from Pelion Gap off the Overland Track.
Mount Paektu Biosphere Reserve
Mount Paektu Biosphere Reserve (Paekdu), the DPRK's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1989; 132,000 ha volcanic plateau on the Chinese border adjoining Changbaishan, with Lake Chon, tiger habitat, and 1,261 seed plant species.
Mount Paget
Mount Paget is the highest peak of South Georgia, a sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic, rising to about 2,934 meters in the Allardyce Range and first climbed in 1964.
Mount Panorama Circuit
Mount Panorama Circuit, also known as the Bathurst Circuit, is a 6.213 km street racing circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, opened in 1938 and home of the Bathurst 1000.
Mount Paris
Mount Paris is a mountain rising to about 2,800 m in the northern Rouen Mountains, west of the Roberts Ice Piedmont in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica.
Mount Parnon – Cape Maleas Biosphere Reserve
Mount Parnon – Cape Maleas Biosphere Reserve, Greece's fourth UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 27 September 2025 in Hangzhou; 516,412 ha in the southeastern Peloponnese, 23% marine, 89,467 residents, over 800 plant species and Europe's only natural cedar stands.
Mount Parry
Mount Parry, a 2,520 m mountain on Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; its highest peak, charted by Foster in 1829 and named for Arctic explorer Sir William Edward Parry; first climbed 1984.
Mount Peale
Mount Peale (12,721 ft / 3,877 m) is the highest peak of the La Sal Mountains and Manti-La Sal National Forest in San Juan County, Utah; a laccolithic summit with a 1988 Research Natural Area.
Mount Pelée
Mount Pelée, also known as Montagne Pelée, is an active stratovolcano at the northern end of Martinique, deadliest for its 1902 eruption that destroyed Saint-Pierre.
Mount Percy
Mount Percy, Antarctic mountain on Joinville Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, 765 m with twin peaks; named by James Clark Ross in 1842 for Rear Admiral Josceline Percy; distinct from Mount Percy in New Zealand and the Kalgoorlie gold mine.
Mount Philo State Park
Mount Philo State Park in Charlotte, Vermont, established 1924 from Frances Humphreys' donation, is Vermont's first state park: a 968-foot summit with CCC-built road and lodge, Lake Champlain and Adirondack views, and a 10-site campground.
Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano on Luzon in the Philippines, whose June 1991 eruption was the 20th century's second largest and cooled global temperatures.
Mount Piper power station
Mount Piper power station is a black-coal-fired power station 25 km west of Lithgow, New South Wales, owned and operated by EnergyAustralia, with a capacity of 1,430 MW.
Mount Pisgah
Mount Pisgah is a 1,860 m peak in the north-central Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named by American sealers in the 1820s.
Mount Pleasant (TV series)
Mount Pleasant: British comedy-drama (2011–2017) on Sky One, created by Sarah Hooper; 53 episodes in 6 series plus a 2017 special, set on a Manchester suburb cul-de-sac starring Sally Lindsay and Daniel Ryan.
Mount Pleasant Coal Mine
The Mount Pleasant Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, near Muswellbrook, owned and operated by MACH Energy Australia.
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: a Charleston County town across the Cooper River from Charleston, incorporated 1837, grown from 6,155 residents in 1970 to about 95,000, known for the Old Village, Patriots Point, and the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.
Mount Plymouth
Mount Plymouth (Plymouth, Monte) is a 520 m (Chilean record ~633 m) mountain 1.5 mi NW of Discovery Bay, northern Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, charted 1935 by Discovery II personnel and named after Plymouth, Devon.
Mount Pond
Mount Pond, also called Monte Campbell, is the 540 m highest point of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, mapped by Foster in 1829 and named for John Pond, Astronomer Royal 1811–35.