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Mount Cameroon
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active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea
Mount Cameroon is an active volcano located in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea, making it one of the region's most geologically significant features. Its volcanic activity has shaped the local landscape and poses both hazards and interests for the surrounding communities and scientists who study it.
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- Elevation
- 4095
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- Le Char des Dieux - Fako Mountain - Mount Cameroon National Park - Région du Sud-ouest.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 3901
- topographic isolation
- 2338
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Mount Cameroon is an active stratovolcano in the Southwest Region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its indigenous name Mongo ma Ndemi ("Mountain of Greatness"). Mount Cameroon is ranked 22nd by topographic isolation.
It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa, the fourth-most prominent peak in Africa, and 31st-most prominent in the world. The mountain is part of the area of volcanic activity known as the Cameroon Volcanic Line, which also includes Lake Nyos, the site of a disaster in 1986. The eruption of 28 April-June 1909 caused the German colonial government of Kamerun to temporarily move from Buea to Douala. The most recent eruption occurred on February 3, 2012.