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Mount Elgon District: Mount Elgon, Sabaot Land Defence Force, Mount Elgon Insurgency, Mt. Elgon Constituency, Kapsokwony

Mount Elgon District: Mount Elgon, Sabaot Land Defence Force, Mount Elgon Insurgency, Mt. Elgon Constituency, Kapsokwony


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Chapters: Mount Elgon, Sabaot Land Defence Force, Mount Elgon Insurgency, Mt. Elgon Constituency, Kapsokwony. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mount Elgon - It is the oldest and largest solitary volcano in East Africa, covering an area of around 3500 km . Other features of note are: The mountain soils are red laterite. The mountain is the catchment area for the several rivers such as the Suam River which becomes the Turkwel downstream and which drains into Lake Turkana, the Nzoia River and the Lwakhakha which flow to Lake Victoria. The town of Kitale is in the foothills of the mountain. The area around the mountain is protected by two Mount Elgon National Parks one on each side of the international border. Some rare plants are found on the mountain, including Ardisiandra wettsteinii, Carduus afromontanus, Echinops hoehnelii, Ranunculus keniensis, and Romulea keniensis. In 1896, C. W. Hobley became the first European to circumnavigate the mountain. Kmunke and Stigler made the first recorded ascent of Wagagai and Koitobos in 1911. F. Jackson, E. Gedge, and J. Martin made the first recorded ascent of Sudek in 1890. The main peak is an easy scramble and does not require any special mountaineering skills. The mountain is named after the Elgeyo tribe, who once lived in huge caves on the south side of the mountain. It was known as "Ol Doinyo Ilgoon" (Breast Mountain) by the Maasai and as "Masaba" on the Ugandan side. Mt. Elgon consists of five major peaks: Mount Elgon is a massive solitary volcanic mountain on the border of eastern Uganda and western Kenya. Its vast form, eighty kilometres in diameter, rises 3070m above the surrounding plains, providing welcome relief in more than one sense of the word. Its mountainous terrain introduces variety to an...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=510079


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158600250
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158600259
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Mount Elgon, Sabaot Land Defence Force, Mount Elgon Insurgency, Mt. Elgon Constituency, Kapsokwony
  • Width: 229 mm


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