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Longonot

Mount Longonot (Oloonong'ot) is a 2,776 m trachytic caldera stratovolcano southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Kenya Rift, last erupted 1863, with 2004–2006 InSAR uplift and a national park.

Longs Peak

Longs Peak, 14,259 ft, highest summit of Rocky Mountain National Park and northernmost Colorado fourteener; its Class 3 Keyhole Route (14.5 mi, 5,100 ft gain) was first climbed in 1868 by John Wesley Powell.

Lonquimay

Lonquimay, active Chilean stratovolcano in the Southern Andean Volcanic Zone, 2,832 m, SE of Tolguaca; its 1988-90 Navidad cone eruption lasted 13 months, extruded ~150 million cubic meters of lava, and prompted evacuations.

Lookout Mountain

Lookout Mountain names several US features: a 2,100-foot Civil War ridge over Chattanooga, a 7,377-foot Colorado Front Range foothill, a Long Valley Caldera rhyolite volcano, a Mammoth Cave breakdown viewpoint, and a Maine summit.

Lunpo Gangri

Lunpo Gangri (Loinbo Kangri, 冷布岗日), 7,095 m ultra-prominent peak in the Gangdise Shan (Kailash Range), Xigaze, Tibet, China; highest peak of the range, glaciated granite mountain with a 1995 Japanese attempt to 6,350 m.

Maca

Maca (Volcán Macá) is a glacier-covered stratovolcano in Aysén, Chile, on the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone; last confirmed eruption about 1560 CE, MAC1 tephra eruption ~1,440 cal years BP.

Mafadi

Mafadi (also Ntheledi) is a 3,446 m peak on the Drakensberg escarpment border and the highest point in South Africa, lower than Lesotho's Thabana Ntlenyana; its name was borrowed from a Lesotho peak in 1971.

Mageik

Mount Mageik, a 2,165 m glacier-covered andesite-dacite compound stratovolcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska, part of the Katmai volcanic cluster near Novarupta; last confirmed eruption about 500 BCE, with fumarolic summit crater lake and uncertain 20th-century eruption reports.

Maglić

Maglić (Маглић) is a Dinaric Alps mountain on the Bosnia and Herzegovina–Montenegro border; its 2,386 m Bosnian summit is the country's highest point, in Sutjeska National Park near Foča.

Maipo

Maipo, a 5,323 m Chile-Argentina border stratovolcano southeast of Santiago, partially fills the 450,000-year-old Diamante caldera; last confirmed eruption 1912, no fumaroles, high Argentine volcanic risk rank.

Maja e Jezercës

Maja e Jezercës (Jezerski vrh), 2,694 m, is the highest peak of the Prokletije/Accursed Mountains and the Dinaric Alps, Albania's second highest after Korab, first climbed in 1929.

Makalu (मकालु)

Makalu (मकालु), also called Makalu I in the Mahalangur Himal, is the world's fifth-highest mountain (8,463 or 8,485 m) on the Nepal–Tibet border about 20 km east of Everest, first climbed 15 May 1955 by Terray and Couzy.

Makushin

Makushin Volcano: active ice-covered stratovolcano, 1,800 m, on northern Unalaska Island, Alaska, 25 km west of Dutch Harbor; 2.5-3 km caldera formed about 8,000 years ago; 18 historical eruptions since 1786, last in 1995.

Malinche

La Malinche (Matlalcueye) is a 4,461 m dormant stratovolcano northeast of Puebla, Mexico, in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; last confirmed eruption 1170 BCE, Holocene ash about 3,100 years ago, potentially active with over 2 million people nearby.

Malintang

Malintang (Sorikmalintang), volcano 261121, is a 1,988 m andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia, source of the ~1.53 ka Lubuk King Tephra, the youngest known VEI 5 eruption in Sumatra.

Malubiting

Malubiting (مالونیتنگ), or Malubiting West, is a 7,458 m ultra-prominent peak in the Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains of Pakistan's Karakoram. First climbed 23 August 1971 by an Austrian team; only one further ascent, in 1997, is documented.

Mammoth Mountain

Mammoth Mountain: 3,369-m trachydacite lava-dome complex on the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera, California; last phreatic eruption ~700 years ago; CO2 tree kill and ongoing USGS-monitored unrest.

Mamostong Kangri

Mamostong Kangri (Mamostang Kangri, K35), 7,516 m, is the highest peak of the Rimo Muztagh in the eastern Karakoram, Ladakh, India. First climbed in 1984 by an Indo-Japanese team via the east ridge; name means 'thousand demons'.

Manaslu

Manaslu (8,163 m), eighth-highest mountain, in Gorkha/Manang, Nepal; first climbed 9 May 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu of Yuko Maki's Japanese expedition; restricted-area trekking and conservation area.

Maotou Shan

Maotou Shan (马头山, Matou Shan), a mountain in Yunnan, China, at 24°34'13"N 102°09'59"E; a Pu'er peak of 2,857 m. The name also denotes Matoushan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Nekomata-yama in Toyama, Japan.

Marapi

Marapi (Gunung Marapi) is a 2,885-m complex stratovolcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia, the island's most active volcano, with over 50 VEI 1-2 eruptions since 1770, magma stored at 15-26 km depth, and a deadly 3 December 2023 eruption; distinct from Java's Merapi.

Maromokotro

Maromokotro (Maromokotra, Mont Maromokotro, Tsaratanana) is the 2,876 m highest peak of Madagascar, in the Tsaratanana Massif and reserve, Diana Region, northern Madagascar, with endemic flora and fauna.

Marra, Jebel

Jebel Marra (Jebel Mara) is Sudan's highest volcano, a 3,042 m volcanic field in Darfur with the 5-km-wide Deriba caldera formed about 3,500 years ago, dormant with fumaroles, last confirmed eruption dated 2000 BCE (VEI 4).

Matterhorn

The Matterhorn (Monte Cervino, Mont Cervin) is a 4,478 m pyramidal peak on the Swiss-Italian border above Zermatt, first climbed by Edward Whymper's team on 14 July 1865, when four climbers died on the descent.

Matutum

Matutum (Matutan), a 2,262 m symmetrical stratovolcano in southern Mindanao, Philippines, near General Santos; last confirmed eruption 1290 CE, forested 320 m crater, and a 13,947 ha protected landscape.

Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea (Maunakea, "White Mountain") is Hawaii's highest dormant shield volcano at 13,796 ft, a glaciated postshield volcano, a premier astronomy site with a dozen telescopes, and a sacred Native Hawaiian landscape now governed by the MKSOA.

Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill

Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, also Te Tōtara i Āhua, is a 182-metre volcanic cone and former pā in Epsom, Auckland, crowned by the 1940 Campbell obelisk and co-governed by the Tūpuna Maunga Authority.

McDonald Peak

McDonald Peak, Montana's Mission Range high point (9,794-9,820 ft, 5,614 ft prominence), an ultra-prominent summit on the Flathead Indian Reservation closed July 15-October 1 for grizzly bears feeding on army cutworm moths.

Medetsiz Tepe

Medetsiz Tepe (Medetsiz Dağı, Mount Medetsiz) is a 3,524 m limestone peak in the Bolkar Mountains of the Central Taurus, Turkey; the range's highest summit, an ultra-prominent peak with 2,058 m prominence and a small glacier.

Melimoyu

Melimoyu: ice-capped Chilean stratovolcano (2,400 m, 44.08°S 72.88°W) in the southern Andean Southern Volcanic Zone near Puyuhuapi, with an 8-km buried caldera, no historic eruptions, two VEI 5 Holocene eruptions, and 2010 seismic unrest.