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Mount Batu
Mount Batu, 4,307 m, a high peak of the Bale Mountains in Oromia, Ethiopia, within Bale Mountains National Park near the Sanetti Plateau and Harenna Forest; distinct from Indonesian and Malaysian peaks of the same name.
Mount Bintumani
Mount Bintumani (Loma Mansa), 1,945 m, is Sierra Leone's highest peak and the tallest in West Africa west of Mount Cameroon, crowning the Loma Mountains in Koinadugu District within Loma Mountains National Park.
Mount Bogong
Mount Bogong (Warkwoolowler) is Victoria's highest mountain at 1,986 m, in Alpine National Park's Victorian Alps. Named for the Bogong moth gathered there by Aboriginal groups; climbed via Staircase, Eskdale, or Granite Flat routes.
Mount Bouvier
Mount Bouvier (Pic Bouvier, Mont Bouvier) is a mainly ice-covered mountain, about 2,075 m high, in central Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition for French naturalist Louis-Eugène Bouvier.
Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield, also Mont Bransfield or Bransfield, Monte, is a 760 m conical ice-covered mountain at the northeast end of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, named in 1838 by d'Urville for Edward Bransfield, who mapped the area in 1820.
Mount Dimlang
Mount Dimlang (Vogel Peak) is a 2,042 m mountain in the Shebshi Mountains, Adamawa State, Nigeria, near Ganye and the Cameroon border; it is the range's highest point, though not Nigeria's highest.
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 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 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 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 Heha
Mount Heha, Burundi's highest named mountain at 2,670 m (some sources 2,684 m), a broad grassland summit in the Burundi Highlands near Mukike, about 20 km east of Lake Tanganyika, climbed as a guided hike.
Mount Jackson (landform)
Mount Jackson, Antarctic Peninsula peak in Palmer Land's Welch Mountains, 3,184 m with 2,187 m prominence; first ascent 1964 by BAS; named for Andrew Jackson; once BAT's highest peak before Mount Hope.
Mount Kaplan
Mount Kaplan is the highest peak, at about 4,230 m, of the Hughes Range in Antarctica's Queen Maud Mountains, photographed from the air by Richard E. Byrd in 1929.
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya (Batian 5,199 m) is Africa's second-highest peak, an extinct volcano on the equator with 12 rapidly receding glaciers, a 1949 national park, 1978 biosphere reserve, and 1997 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro, a volcanic massif in Tanzania with cones Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m and the world's tallest free-standing mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage site with retreating equatorial glaciers.
Mount Kirkpatrick
Mount Kirkpatrick, Queen Alexandra Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: about 4,528 m, highest Transantarctic summit, named in 1908 by Shackleton's expedition, and site of the Cryolophosaurus dinosaur quarry.
Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m, is mainland Australia's highest peak, in the NSW Snowy Mountains within Kosciuszko National Park; named in 1840 by Strzelecki after Tadeusz Kościuszko, resembling the Kraków mound.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.