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Agepsta
highest mountain of Gagra Range, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Har HaMenuchot
mountain and cemetery in Jerusalem
Piz Kesch
highest mountain of the Albula Alps in Grisons, Switzerland
Gannett Peak
mountain
Mount Waddington
mountain of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada
Cerro Tres Kandú
mountain
Mount Marcy
mountain in United States of America
Jalovec
mountain
Ben Macdui
mountain on the Aberseendshire and Moray border, Scotland; second highest mountain in the UK
Mountain of Smoke
mountain in Kingdom of Bahrain
Pic du Midi de Bigorre
mountain in France
Pico do Areeiro
Madeira island's third highest peak
Gunung Dukono
Dukono is an active volcano located in the northern part of Halmahera island, the largest of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. It has a broad profile and is capped by compound craters. During the major eruption in 1550, a lava flow filled in the strait between Halmahera and the north flank cone of Mount Mamuya. It was an eruption of scale 3 on VEI. Deaths were reported but the figure is unknown. Smaller eruptions occurred in 1719, 1868, and 1901. Since 1933, Dukono has been erupting continuously until the present.
Antuco
mountain in Bío Bío province, Chile
Antelao
Monte Antelao (Cadorino dialect: Nantelòu) is the highest mountain in the eastern Dolomites (a section of the Alps) in northeastern Italy, southeast of the town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the region of Cadore. The Monte Antelao is an ultra-prominent peak (Ultra).
Calton Hill
mountain in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Eiríksjökull
Eiríksjökull (Icelandic for "Eirík's glacier", ) is a glacier north-west of Langjökull in Iceland, with an area of reaching a height of , atop the largest table mountain in Iceland which goes by the same name.
Králický Sněžník
mountain in Poland and the Czech Republic
Kirkjufell
Kirkjufell (Icelandic: , "Church Mountain") is a 463 m high hill on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. Kirkjufell was one of the filming locations for Game of Thrones season 6 and 7, featuring as the "arrowhead mountain" that the Hound and the company north of the Wall see when capturing a wight.
Pik Karla Marxa
mountain in Tajikistan
Falakro
Falakro Oros (Greek: Φαλακρό όρος, translated in English as "Bald mountain"; , Bozdag; Turkish: Bozdağ, translated in English as "Gray mountain") is a mountain in the Drama regional unit, in eastern Greek Macedonia, northern Greece. The elevation of its highest summit, Profitis Ilias, is 2,232 metres above sea level. There is a ski resort on the mountain.
Mount Takao
mountain in Tokyo, Japan
Mount Giluwe
Eroded shield volcano in Papua New Guinea
Mount Iliamna
stratovolcano in Alaska, United States
Parrotspitze
The Parrotspitze (in Italian, the Punta Parrot) (4,434 m) is a peak in the Pennine Alps of Italy and Switzerland. It is located south of Dufourspitze in the Monte Rosa Massif. The mountain is named after Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, a German doctor, who made an attempt on the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816.
Hohberghorn
The Hohberghorn (4,218 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It lies towards the northern end of the Nadelgrat, a high-level ridge running roughly north–south, north of the Dom, above the resort of Saas-Fee to the east, and the Mattertal to the west.
Pico Posets
mountain in the Spanish Pyrenees
Grand Ballon
highest mountain of the Vosges Mountains in France
Otgontenger
Otgontenger (; ; ) is the highest peak in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia. Its summit is calculated to reach an elevation of 4,021 meters above mean sea level. The mountain is located in Zavkhan Province and is the only peak in the Khangai range that is capped with a permanent glacier.
Hinter Fiescherhorn
mountain in the Bernese Alps
Zapaleri
Zapaleri is a volcano whose summit is the tripoint of the borders of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. A number of railways are in the area. The volcano formed on top of the 2.89 mya Tara Ignimbrite from the Guacha caldera and the basement beneath the volcano is formed from Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks affected by tectonic deformation. Volcanic rocks are andesite, basalt, dacite and rhyolite. Late Cretaceous rocks are also found in the area, as are Pleistocene shoshonite volcanic rocks.
Aracar
Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has a main summit crater about in diameter and sometimes contains crater lakes and a secondary crater. The volcano has formed, starting during the Pliocene, on top of a lava platform and an older basement. Constructed on a base with an altitude of , it covers a surface area of and has a volume of . The only observed volcanic activity was a possible steam or ash plume on March 28, 1993, seen from the village of Tolar Grande about southeast of the volcano, but with no evidence of deformation of
Mount Hillaby
mountain in Barbados
Kediet ej Jill
mountain in Mauritania
Mount Ishizuchi
mountain in Shikoku, Japan
Annapurna I
Annapurna (; ) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the 10th highest mountain in the world at above sea level and is well known for the difficulty and danger involved in its ascent.
Koshtan-Tau
Koshtan-Tau (; ) is the highest peak (5,144m) of the Koshtan massif of the central Caucasus Mountains in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic of Russia, near the border with Georgia. The peak was first ascended in 1889 by Herman Woolley and party.
Yangra
Yangra (Ganesh I) is the highest peak of the Ganesh Himal, which is a subrange of the Himalayas. Although not an 8,000 metre peak, and little visited, it enjoys great vertical relief over the nearby valleys. __NOTOC__ thumb ==Location== Yangra, and the entire Ganesh Himal, lie between the Budhi Gandaki and Trisuli Gandaki valleys, northwest of Kathmandu. Yangra lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet, and is east-southeast of Manaslu, the nearest 8,000  metre peak.
Menengai
Menengai Crater is a massive shield volcano with one of the biggest calderas in the world, in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. It is the largest volcano caldera in Kenya and the second largest volcano caldera in Africa. Volcanic formed rich loam soils enrich the adjacent farmland around its flanks. The crater is on the floor of the Rift Valley. The volcano formed about 200,000 years ago and the prominent 12 x 8 km caldera formed about 8000 years ago. The caldera floor is covered with numerous post caldera lava flows. The Menengai volcano is considered one of the best-preserved Krakatau-sty
Cumbal
mountain in Colombia
Mount Homa
mountain
Cerro Las Minas
mountain in Lempira Department, Honduras
Trisul
Trisul or Trishul is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, Uttarakhand, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m. The three peaks resemble a trident - in Sanskrit, Trishula, trident, is the weapon of Shiva. The Trishul group forms the southwest corner of the ring of peaks enclosing the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, about west-southwest of Nanda Devi itself. The main peak, Trisul I, was the first peak over to have ever been climbed, in 1907.
Mount Rishiri
mountain in Hokkaido, Japan
Independence Peak
mountain in Tajikistan
Siula Grande
mountain
Mount Heha
mountain
Mount Tomorr
Tomorr is a mountain chain in the region of Berat and Skrapar, in Albania. It reaches an elevation of above sea level at the Çuka e Partizanit, which is the highest peak in central Albania.
Stecknadelhorn
The Stecknadelhorn (4,240 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It lies on the Nadelgrat, a high-level ridge running roughly north–south above the resort of Saas Fee to the east, and the Mattertal to the west.
Zard Kuh
thumb Zard-Kuh, also Zard Kuh-e Bakhtiari (, alternatively Zardkuh or Zarduh Kuh), is a sub-range in the central Zagros Mountains, Iran.
Fichtelberg
The Fichtelberg () is a mountain with two main peaks in the middle of the Ore Mountains in the east German state of Saxony, near the Czech border. At above sea level, the Fichtelberg is the highest mountain in Saxony, the second highest in the Ore Mountains and was formerly the highest mountain in East Germany. Its subpeak is high.
Ben Bulben
Benbulbin (), sometimes Benbulben or Ben Bulben, is a steep-sided and flat-topped mountain in County Sligo, Ireland. It is part of the Dartry Mountains, in an area sometimes called "Yeats Country". Benbulbin, high, formed as a nunatak during the last Ice Age.
Irruputuncu
Irruputuncu is a volcano in the commune of Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile, as well as San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, Nor Lípez Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia. The mountain's summit is high and has two summit craters—the southernmost -wide one has active fumaroles. The volcano also features lava flows, block and ash flows and several lava domes. The volcano is part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ).
Wetterhorn
The Wetterhorn (; 3,690 m) is a peak in the Swiss Alps towering above the village of Grindelwald. Formerly known as Hasle Jungfrau, it is one of three summits on a mountain named the "Wetterhörner", the highest of which is the Mittelhorn (3,702 m) and the lowest and most distant the Rosenhorn (3,689 m). The latter peaks are mostly hidden from view from Grindelwald.
Zumsteinspitze
The Zumsteinspitze (Punta Zumstein in Italian) (4,563 m) is a peak in the Pennine Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a subpeak of Monte Rosa.
Agassizhorn
The Agassizhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It lies just north-west of the Finsteraarhorn, the main summit of the range. The Agassizhorn is the tripoint between the valleys of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, the Unteraar Glacier and the Fiescher Glacier. Because the Lower Grindelwald and Unteraar glaciers drain into the Aar and hence the Rhine and North Sea, whilst the Fiescher glacier drains into the Rhone and hence the Mediterranean Sea, the Sidelhorn lies on the European continental divide.
Pic la Selle
mountain in Haiti
Brienzer Rothorn
mountain in the Swiss Alps
Puig Major
Mountain in Spain
Serra de Collserola
mountain range in Catalonia, Spain