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Mt. Oiautukekea (Goodenough)
Mount Oiautukekea, also called Mount Vineuo, is the 2,536 m highest peak of Goodenough Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea, and an ultra-prominent summit.
Mt. Piora
Mount Piora is a remote 3,522-3,537 m peak in the Kratke Range, Papua New Guinea, near Habi'ina; site of the 1933 turned-back prospecting expedition and the endemic plant genus Piora.
Mt. Simpson
Mt. Simpson (Mount Simpson) is a peak in Papua New Guinea on New Guinea island at 10°2′S, 149°34′E; elevation is given as 2,660 m by OpenStreetMap and 2,883 m by climbing lists, with 1,863 m prominence.
Mt. Victory (Keraroa)
Mount Victory (Keraroa) is an active stratovolcano on the Cape Nelson peninsula in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, which erupted from about 1890 to 1935.
Mtorwi
Mtorwi is a 2,961 m mountain in the Kipengere Range, on the eastern side of Kitulo National Park, Makete District, Njombe Region, Tanzania; Tanzania's 7th listed summit, reached by trail from the Nhumbe valley.
Mulanje
Mulanje (Mount Mulanje, Mulanje Massif) is Malawi's highest mountain, 3,002 m, in the southeast near Mozambique; granite-syenite block with endemic Mulanje cedar, isolated Ruo River fish fauna, and 2025 UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Nabro
Nabro (Nabbeo) is a 2,218 m stratovolcano in southern Eritrea, highest in the Danakil depression, with nested 8 and 5 km calderas in the Bidu complex. Its first recorded eruption began 12-13 June 2011 (VEI 4), emitting ~1.5 Tg SO2, the largest of 2002-2012, with activity ending mid-2012.
Nyamulagira
Nyamulagira (Nyamuragira) is Africa's most active volcano, a 3,058 m high-potassium basaltic shield in Virunga, DR Congo, 13 km from Nyiragongo, with 40+ eruptions since 1865 and an ongoing eruption since 2018.
O'Sullivan Peak
O'Sullivan Peak names two mountains: a 1,765 m ice-covered peak on Palmer Land's east coast, Antarctica, named for FIDS member T.P. O'Sullivan, and Sunrise Peak (11,272 ft) in Utah's Wasatch Range, named in 1978 for photographer Timothy O'Sullivan.
Payers Tinde (HP Suess Land)
Payers Tinde, also Payer Peak, is a 2320 m mountain in Suess Land, Northeast Greenland, named for Julius Payer, who climbed nearby in August 1870.
Pic Boby
Pic Boby (Imarivolanitra), 2,658 m, is Madagascar's second-highest peak, the summit of the Andringitra Massif in Andringitra National Park south of Ambalavao; a non-technical trek over potassic syenite with 1,875 m prominence.
Pico de São Tomé
Pico de São Tomé, highest peak of São Tomé Island and of São Tomé and Príncipe at 2,024 m, a volcanic summit on the Cameroon Volcanic Line northwest of the island's center.
Pidurutalagala
Pidurutalagala (Mount Pedro; පිදුරුතලාගල) is Sri Lanka's highest mountain, 2,524 m, north of Nuwara Eliya in the Central Highlands; its radar- and communications-hosting summit is a restricted military zone.
Piton des Neiges
Piton des Neiges is a dormant shield volcano on Réunion Island, at 3,069 m, which is the highest point of the island and the Indian Ocean.
Puncak Jaya
Puncak Jaya, or Carstensz Pyramid, is a 4,884 m limestone peak in Papua, Indonesia, the highest point of New Guinea and Oceania on the Messner Seven Summits list, first climbed in 1962 by Heinrich Harrer, with rapidly vanishing tropical glaciers.
Puncak Mandala
Puncak Mandala (Julianatop, Mandala Peak, Aplim Apom) is a 4,760 m limestone peak in Highland Papua, Indonesia, highest of the Jayawijaya Range and Indonesia's second-highest independent mountain; its small tropical ice cap vanished before 2003.
Ras Dashen
Ras Dashen (Ras Dejen, ራስ ደጀን), Ethiopia's highest mountain in the Simien Mountains, Amhara Region; elevation disputed at 4,533-4,550 m, ultra-prominent peak, non-technical 6-10 day trek.
Rungwe
Rungwe is an active stratovolcano in southwestern Tanzania near Lake Malawi, rising about 2,950 m and last erupting around 1250 CE, the southernmost volcano in the East African Rift System.
Sapitwa
Sapitwa, on the Mulanje Massif in southern Malawi, is the country's highest point at 3,002 m and the highest summit in south-central Africa. Its Chichewa name means "don't go there"; the peak is sacred to Yao, Mang'anja, and Lhomwe traditions and lies in a UNESCO biosphere reserve and 2025 World Heritage site.
Seweweekspoortpiek
Seweweekspoortpiek (Seven Weeks Defile Peak) is a 2,325 m summit in the Klein Swartberg, Western Cape, South Africa; the province's highest point and a Cape Fold Belt ultra with 1,545 m prominence.
Shala
Shala (O'a, Shalla) is a silicic caldera volcano in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia, whose caldera holds Lake Shala, the rift's deepest lake. Caldera formed 240±30 ka; no Holocene eruptions known; fumaroles and geothermal springs persist.
Shimbiris
Shimbiris (Shimber Berris), highest mountain of Somalia and Somaliland at 2,460 m (older sources 2,416 m), in the Cal Madow/Golis range of Sanaag near Erigavo; distinct from a well named Shimbibiris in Togdheer.
Slessor Peak
Slessor Peak: mainly ice-covered 2,370 m peak at the SW end of Bruce Plateau, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, near Gould Glacier; surveyed 1946-47 by FIDS and named for Robert S. Slessor. Distinct from Slessor Glacier in East Antarctica.
Table Mountain
Table Mountain (Khoi: Hoerikwaggo, Mountain in the Sea) is Cape Town's 1,088 m flat-topped sandstone landmark, first climbed in 1503, core of Table Mountain National Park and the Cape Floral Region World Heritage Site.
Talo
Talo is the name of several places, chiefly a mountain in Amhara, Ethiopia (2,623 m per GeoNames; 4,413 m per Natural Earth), an intermittent stream in Oromia, and villages in Indonesia, Mali, and Russia.
Tapuae-o-Uenuku
Tapuae-o-Uenuku (Mount Tapuaenuku, "Tappy"), 2,885 m in the Inland Kaikōura Range, Marlborough: highest New Zealand mountain outside the Southern Alps, sacred to Ngāi Tahu, protected by a tōpuni.
Thabana Ntlenyana
Thabana Ntlenyana, meaning "beautiful little mountain" in Sesotho, is the highest mountain in northeastern Lesotho. It is also the highest point in the Drakensberg–Maloti system and southern Africa.
Tongariro
Tongariro: active andesitic volcanic complex of a dozen-plus cones in New Zealand's Taupō Volcanic Zone, 1,978 m, built over ~275,000 years; Te Māri craters erupted in 2012; Ngāuruhoe is its main vent; heart of a dual World Heritage national park.
Toubkal
Toubkal (Jbel Toubkal, Adrar n Tubqal) is Morocco's and North Africa's highest mountain, 4,167 m in the High Atlas near Marrakesh, first climbed in 1923 by René de Segonzac, with the Neltner Refuge at 3,207 m on the standard route.
Tousside, Tarso
Tarso Toussidé (Tousside, Tarso), a 6,000 km² volcanic massif in western Tibesti, Chad, capped by the 3,265 m Toussidé stratovolcano; no Holocene eruptions, but fumaroles, young lava flows, and satellite-detected subsidence show residual activity.