Landforms and terrestrial features

Monte Baldo (Cima Valdritta)

Cima Valdritta is the highest summit of Monte Baldo, a limestone ridge in northern Italy. It reaches 2218 meters and is the highest point of Verona province.

Monte Binga

Monte Binga (Mount Binga), 2,436 m, is Mozambique's highest point, a quartzite summit on the Zimbabwe border in the Chimanimani Mountains of Manica Province, within Chimanimani National Park.

Monte Cinto (Monte Cintu), 2,706 m, is the highest peak of Corsica, in the rhyolitic Monte Cinto massif of Haute-Corse on the Asco–Lozzi border, 24 km from the coast; distinct from the 281 m Monte Cinto in the Euganean Hills.

Monte Pissis

Monte Pissis (Nevado Pissis) is an inactive stratovolcano on the La Rioja–Catamarca border in Argentina's Puna de Atacama; elevation disputed (6788–6882 m), third-highest Andes peak, first climbed 1937 by Osiecki and Szczepański.

Monte San Lorenzo

Mount San Lorenzo (Monte San Lorenzo, Cerro Cochrane), a 3,706 m Patagonian peak on the Chile-Argentina border near Cochrane; first ascent 1943 by de Agostini, first winter ascent 2004 by Besser's team.

Monte Sarmiento (Tierra del Fuego)

Monte Sarmiento, also Volcán Nevado, is a 2,207 m pyramidal glaciated peak at the west end of the Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, in Alberto de Agostini National Park; first climbed in 1956, second ascent only in 2013.

Monte Seceda (ёda)

Monte Seceda (Ladin Secëda) is a 2,519 m Dolomites mountain above Ortisei, Val Gardena, South Tyrol, in Puez-Odle Nature Park, famed for its ridge viewpoint, 1960-founded cable car, and 2026 time-slot booking.

Monte Viglio

Monte Viglio, 2,156 m, highest peak of the Monti Cantari and Simbruini-Ernici massif in the central Apennines, on the Lazio-Abruzzo border within Monti Simbruini Regional Park; glacial cirques, trail 651 ascent.

Monte Viso

Monte Viso (Monviso, Vísol), 3,841 m, highest peak of the Cottian Alps on the Franco-Italian border in Piedmont; ophiolite massif, source of the Po, first ascent 1861, Giro di Viso ring route.

Monte Zeballos

Monte Zeballos (Cerro Zeballos) is a volcanic Andean peak in Lago Buenos Aires department, Santa Cruz, Argentina, about 2,748 m high, first ascended solo by Oscar Biott in 2004, landmark of scenic Provincial Route 41.

Montferrat

Montferrat (Italian Monferrato) is a historical region of Piedmont, Italy, an imperial margraviate ruled by the Aleramici, then the Palaeologi and Gonzaga dukes, passing to Savoy in 1708; its vineyard hills form part of the 2014 UNESCO Langhe-Roero and Monferrato World Heritage Site.

Monti della Tolfa

Monti della Tolfa, volcanic hill group in northern Lazio northeast of Civitavecchia, culminating at 616 m Monte Le Grazie; about 17,000 ha, rich in alunite and other minerals, with Bronze Age, Etruscan, Roman, and papal alum-mining heritage.

Montjuïc

Montjuïc, Barcelona's seafront hill (Mons Judaicus, named for its medieval Jewish cemetery), 173–192 m high, ~338–360 ha; site of Montjuïc Castle, the 1929 Exposition grounds, MNAC, Fundació Joan Miró, and the 1992 Olympic Ring.

Monts Bagzane

Monts Bagzane (Monts Bagzan) is a massif and oval plateau in the Aïr Mountains of northern Niger, home to Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès, Niger's highest point at 2,022 m, with sedentary Tuareg villages between 1,500 and 1,800 m.

Montserrat (mountain)

Montserrat, the serrated conglomerate mountain near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, home to the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat and the Black Madonna, patron saint site of Catalonia.

Monument Valley

Monument Valley (Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii), a Navajo Tribal Park on the Utah-Arizona border, is a sandstone butte landscape with 400-1,000-foot formations, established 1958 as the first tribal park, famed from John Ford Westerns.

Monuriki

Monuriki (Monu Riki) is an uninhabited 40-hectare volcanic island in Fiji's Mamanuca group, 45 km west of Nadi, rising to 178 m. Known as the Cast Away filming location and a Key Biodiversity Area holding the third-largest Fijian crested iguana population after goat and rat eradication in 2011.

Moonmilk

Moonmilk is a white, pasty-when-wet cave deposit of very fine carbonate crystals (calcite, hydromagnesite, huntite, gypsum) formed from dripwater with possible microbial help, historically mined in Alpine caves as a medicine.

Moraine

Moraine: ridges or mounds of unsorted glacial till deposited by glacier ice; types include terminal, lateral, medial, recessional, ground, push, and lodge moraines, marking former ice margins.

Moriah

Moriah (Hebrew mōriyyā) is the biblical 'land' of Genesis 22's binding of Isaac, later identified by Jews with the Jerusalem Temple Mount and by Samaritans with Mount Gerizim; its location and etymology remain disputed.

Mornington Island

Mornington Island (Gununa), largest of the 22 Wellesley Islands in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria; Lardil Traditional Owners, Presbyterian mission from 1914, shire since 1978, township Gununa of about 1,200 people.

Mors

Mors, Danish island in the Limfjord (Morsø Kommune), 363 km², 19,520 residents (2025); known for 55-million-year-old moler cliffs, Hanklit, and 2026 UNESCO World Heritage fossil site.

Motu Tuba

Motu Tuba, also known as Tuba Island, is an island in Kiritimati, the largest purely coralline island in the world, in the Line Islands of Kiribati, central Pacific.

Moulin (geomorphology)

Moulin (glacier mill, pothole): a nearly vertical water-worn shaft in a glacier draining surface meltwater into englacial and subglacial drainage; catchments of 1–5 km², depths from 30–40 m in alpine glaciers to 500–1000 m in Greenland, controlling meltwater delivery to the bed.

Mound

Mound: a low, isolated, rounded hill of earth (GeoNames code MND); also a small man-made burial or debris hill. Forms by glacial, erosional, biotic (gopher, termite, mole), and human processes, on land, seabed, and Mars.

Mount Abu

Mount Abu (माउण्ट आबू), ancient Arbudaanchal, is Rajasthan's only hill station in the Aravalli Range, Sirohi district, at about 1,220 m with Guru Shikhar at 1,722 m, known for the Dilwara Jain Temples, Nakki Lake, and its wildlife sanctuary Eco-Sensitive Zone.