Mount Catherine
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 2,653 m (8,704 ft)
- Prominence
- 2,420 m (7,940 ft)
- Listing
- Country high point , Ultra , Ribu
- Location
- Sinai Peninsula
- Country
- Egypt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Saint Catherine (Arabic: جبل كاثرين; Greek: Όρος της Αγίας Αικατερίνης) is the highest mountain in Egypt. It is located near the town of Saint Catherine in the South Sinai Governorate.
Mount Catherine rocks The name is derived from the Christian tradition that angels transported to this mountain the body of the martyred Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Catherine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.