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	Ruwenzori Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ruwenzoris are often identified with the "Mountains of the Moon" mentioned by Ptolemy, but the descriptions are too vague to make this definite.
		The Ruwenzori are known for their vegetation, ranging from tropical rainforest through alpine meadows to snow; and for their animal population, including forest elephants, several primate species and many endemic birds.
		The first European sighting of the Ruwenzori was by the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley in 1889 (the aforementioned clouds are considered to explain why two decades of previous explorers had not seen them).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruwenzori_Range (506 words)

	Ruwenzori Range: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ruwenzori Range is a small mountain range of central Africa, located on the border between Uganda and Congo, with heights of up to 5,109 m (16,761 ft).
		The highest Ruwenzoris are permanently snow-capped, and they, along with Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya[?], are the only such in Africa.
		The first European sighting of the Ruwenzori was by the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley in 1888 (the aforementioned mists are considered to explain why two decades of previous explorers had not seen them).
	www.encyclopedian.com /ru/Ruwenzori.html (249 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		RUWENZORI [Ruwenzori], mountain range, E central Africa, on the Uganda-Congo border, in the western arm of the Great Rift Valley between lakes Albert and Edward.
		This fault-block range is composed of ancient crystalline rock; Uganda's Kilembe copper mine is located in the range's eastern foothills.
		The range may be the fabled "Mountains of the Moon," erroneously supposed by the ancients to be the source of the Nile.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Ruwenzor (112 words)

	Ruwenzori Range -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		mountain range bordering Uganda and Congo (Kinshasa); the range is thought to be the “Mountains of the Moon” described by the 2nd-century-AD geographer Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus).
		The mountains stretch from the Aleutian Range in south-central Alaska to the Yukon boundary in southern Alaska.
		The highest mountain range within the Arctic Circle is the Brooks Range, the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064527?tocId=9064527 (839 words)

	MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Uganda
		The Ruwenzori Range, on the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo, contains seven peaks that are covered with snow year-round.
		The highest is Margherita Peak of Mount Stanley, at 5,109 m (16,762 ft) tall, the third tallest mountain in Africa.
		Except for the Ruwenzori Range, which was formed by an uplift of Earth’s crust as it split along the Western Rift Valley, all of Uganda’s mountains are volcanic in origin.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761566572___2/Uganda.html (803 words)

	Updates
		Range SW Cape Province to Natal and Transvaal.
		Range: Disjunct in foothills of e slope of Andes of Ecuador and Peru.
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	www.ibispub.com /updates.html (8442 words)

	Ruwenzori Range - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ruwenzori Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mountain range on the frontier between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda; length 105 km/65 mi; width about 48 km/30 mi.
		In 1952 a natural park was established in the Ruwenzori to protect the wide variety of species and habitats.
		The mountain range is thought to be the ‘Mountains of the Moon’ mentioned by the Eygyptian astronomer and geographer Ptolemy.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ruwenzori+Range (158 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ruwenzori Range
		The Ruwenzori Range (also Rwenzori Mountains) is a small but spectacular mountain range of central Africa, often referred to as Mt. Ruwenzori, located on the border between Uganda and Congo, with heights of up to 5,109 m (16,761 ft).
		The first European sighting of the Ruwenzori was by the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley in 1889 (the aforementioned mists are considered to explain why two decades of previous explorers had not seen them).
		On June 7, the expedition's second-in-command and its military commander, William Stairs, climbed to 10,677 feet, the first non-African ever to scale the range's tallest peak.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ruwenzori_Range (433 words)

	RTW Leg 107
		This park is remarkable for its range of habitats—a miniature volcanic crater, highland rain forest, acacia woodland and a string of crater lakes (The Momella Lakes).
		The Ruwenzori Range falls steeply westward to the Western Rift Valley, while its descent to the east is more gradual, leading to the uplands of the western part of Uganda.
		The Ruwenzori Range's largest mountains are separated by passes and deeply cut river valleys that all eventually drain into the Semliki River.
	www.dmcity.com /slarty/narr/107.htm (2885 words)

	Ruwenzori red duiker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ruwenzori red duiker is included in the subgenus Cephalophorus [Gray, 1842] (Nowak, 1991).
		The Ruwenzori red duiker is reported as primarily diurnal, but, depending on weather conditions (especially rain), the activity period may be shifted out of necessity to the night.
		The spelling of the Ruwenzori mountain range is disputed; some authors prefer the spelling Rwenzori (East, 1999).
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Cephalophus_rubidus.html (939 words)

	Ruwenzori mountains, Uganda - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		, mountain range in central Africa, located alongside the Great Rift Valley, on the Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) border, between Lake Albert and Lake Edward.
		The Ruwenzori Range was visited in 1889 by an expedition that was led by the British-American explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and the major peaks were explored and climbed in 1906 by the expedition of the Italian Luigi Amedeo, duke of Abruzzi.
		The waters from the Ruwenzori mountains feed the Nile.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /ruwenzori_mountains.htm (171 words)

	Chessler Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ruwenzori, Ptolemy's 'Mountains of the Moon,' had never been seriously attempted before this remarkable expedition made the first ascents of all major peaks.
		The mountain range of Ruwenzori is believed to be the mythical mountains of the Moon referred to by Ptolemy.
		The Duke's expedition was the first to truly explore and document the range after nearly half a century of speculation, setting in place the final piece of the Nile puzzle.
	www.chesslerbooks.com /eCart/viewItem.asp?idProduct=2363 (421 words)

	International Travel News: Uganda. (Africa) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The varied scenery includes tropical forests and tea plantations on the slopes of the snowcapped Ruwenzori Mountains; the arid plains of the Karamoja; the lush, heavily populated Buganda; the rolling savannah of Acholi, and the fertile cotton area of Teso.
		It is immediately to the south of the snowcapped "Mountains of the Moon," the Ruwenzori range.
		Ruwenzori also has large concentrations of hippo and is the area noted for the Ugandan kob, a red-gold species of antelope whose stags fight fiercely for their harems.
	www.highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:14745510&ctrlInfo=Round18:Mode18c:DocG:Result&ao= (870 words)

	Ruwenzori Retreat : Mudgee Accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ruwenzori is a secluded, bush retreat near the food and wine-lover's paradise of Mudgee, in Central West NSW.
		Perched high on the Great Dividing Range, Ruwenzori boasts sweeping views and is surrounded by 25 hectares of bush, offering absolute peace and privacy.
		The Ruwenzori, also known as the "Mountains of the Moon", is a group of six high glaciated mountains, located in a small remote area on the border between Uganda and Zaire.
	www.otr.com.au /ruwenzori (255 words)

	Terrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rise of the plateau to the east and west of the country is emphasized by the mountainous areas found along the borders.
		The impressive Ruwenzori Range is located near the Great Rift Valley in the north-western area.
		The tops of the mountains in that range are covered with permanent ice and snow as well as a total of 37 small glaciers and ice fields that cover just under 64 square km.
	www.sjr.mb.ca /ms/geo/countries/uganda/Terrain.htm (667 words)

	Ruwenzori
		This range has been linked with the fabled Mountains of the Moon, for centuries postulated to be the source of the Nile, hidden deep in central Africa.
		The west side of the Ruwenzori range on a rare clear day, photographed from the village of Mutwanga.
		The Ruwenzoris are in Zaire, a country where the disorganisation is rivaled only by the corruption.
	www.cathyodowd.com /ruw.html (1506 words)

	Virunga Mountains - Britannica Concise
		Of its eight major volcanic peaks, the highest is Karisimbi, while Nyiragongo is at the western end of the chain; in 1861 John Hanning Speke was the first European to spot them.
		Parts of the range are in Virunga National Park, Volcanoes National Park (Rwanda), and Gorilla National Park (Uganda).
		The range runs east-west, perpendicular to the rift valley in which lie Lakes Kivu and Edward.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382076 (488 words)

	Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Mount Stanley
		The Ruwenzori (or Rwenzori) is the only truly alpine, glaciated mountain range in Africa, the third highest group overall on the continent behind Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya.
		The mountains have been famed since antiquity as the "Mountains of the Moon", the distant unknown source of the Nile River, and they are the wettest mountains in East Africa, shrouded in clouds and mist for most of the year.
		Like all tropical glaciers around the world, the glaciers of the Ruwenzori have shrunk substantially since the mid-19th century, and now there are less than 2 square miles (5 sq km) of ice cover left.
	www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/ROF.php?name=Stanley (311 words)

	::Bolshe.ru::Africa. Страница 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The route lay up the Aruwimi, the principal tributary of the Congo from the north-east, by which the expedition made its way, encountering immense difficulties, through the great equatorial forest, the character and extent of which were thus for the first time brought to light.
		The return was made to the east coast, and resulted in the discovery of the great snowy range of Ruwenzori or Runsoro, and the confirmation of the existence of a third Nile lake discharging its waters into the Albert Nyanza by the Semliki river.
		Government and railway surveys apart, the chief points of interest for explorers during 1904-1906 were the Ruwenzori range and the connexion of the basin of Lake Chad with the Niger and Congo systems.
	www.bolshe.ru /unit/5,10/books/7036/s/27 (1601 words)

	Africa
		Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Africa.
		The Virunga Range, on the border between war-torn Rwanda and the anarchic Congo, is most famous as home of the highland gorillas, but offers climbing on volcanoes that rise to 4507m/14,787' at Karisimbi.
		When dividing up the world for the Peakbagger.com Mountain Range Classification System, the islands in the mid-Atlantic and mid-Indian ocean were all arbitrarily placed with Africa.
	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=6 (476 words)

	Ruwenzori - Review - The land that time forgot………………..
		I can’t answer that but I know if the did they would hang out in the Ruwenzori mountain range in SW Uganda, better known as the Mountains of the Moon.
		The town is characterised by the wild west swinging saloon doors and tumbleweeds rolling down the dusty streets.
		I won’t even begin to describe the problems associated with finding firewood in a mountain range, called by the locals ‘the leaf that eternally drips water’, suffice it to say it had the making of a Greek tragedy.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /national-parks-international/ruwenzori/47266 (2349 words)

	Adventure in Uganda - Explore Uganda
		Extending north-south for some 110 kilometres (68 miles) and rising to over 5000 metres (16400ft.), it is Uganda’s impressive Ruwenzori range which is of most interest to adventure travellers.
		The name Ruwenzori means “rain maker” and with good reason, as parts of the area receive over 200 inches (5 metres) of rain a year.
		The Ruwenzoris are noted (infamous) for the incidence of wet and cloudy weather and even during the driest periods of the year it would be usual to experience some rainfall.
	www.keadventure.com /countries/uganda (990 words)

	Mount Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Stanley is the highest mountain in the Ruwenzori Range of Congo and the third highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro (5,895m) and Mount Kenya (5,199m).
		Stanley was first climbed in 1906 by Duke of the Abruzzi, J. Petigax, C. Ollier and J. Brocherel.
		Information about Mount Stanley and the Ruwenzori Range
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Stanley (150 words)

	Ruwenzori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ruwenzori Mountains have been called the "Mountains of the Moon" and are believed to be the ones described by the 2nd-century-AD geographer Ptolemy and were long thought to be the source of the Nile.
		They form a range 100 km long and 50 km wide with the highest point been Margheritea Peak which stands at 5111 meters on Mount Stanley.
		Glaciers presently exist on 6 mountains in the range and are used to gain access to the summits of this range.
	www.adventuredynamics.co.za /mountains/Ruwenzories.htm (184 words)

	Africa and Regions
		Other prominent uplands are the Fouta Djallon (Futa Jallon), on the southwest, and the Adamawa Plateau and the Cameroon mountain range, on the south.
		The Lake Chad Basin is situated in the approximate center of the Northern Plateau.
		West of the Great Rift Valley is the Ruwenzori Range, which attains a maximum elevation of 5119 m (16,795 ft).
	www.africanaonline.com /regions.htm (402 words)

	Ruwenzori Retreat: Mudgee, Self Contained holiday accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ruwenzori (pron Roo-wen-zor-ee) is a secluded, bush retreat near the food and wine-lover's paradise of Mudgee, in Central West NSW.
		Guest accommodation at Ruwenzori is in three large antique railway carriages - which feature all mod-cons.
		Surrounding the carriages are cottage-style gardens, fountains and an abundance of unusual "objets" which contribute to the unique and fascinating nature of Ruwenzori.
	www.stayz.com.au /15999/favourite (473 words)

	1813 Thomson Map of Africa: Antique Maps - Geographicus
		This mysterious range remained on maps until the mid 19th century explorations of Burton, Speke, and Livingstone.
		Today it is generally agreed that references to the Mountains of the Moon refer to the Ruwenzori Range of Kenya & Uganda.
		This mountain range remains one of the most remote and exotic places on Earth, and is the home of a diversity of bizarre plant and animal life.
	www.geographicus.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=G/PROD/Africa-t-14 (488 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ruwenzori Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ruwenzori Range
		Ruwenzori Range, mountain range, central Africa, located in the Rift Valley, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
		The Eastern Highlands, the highest part of the continent, lie near the eastern coast, extending from the Red Sea south to the Zambezi along the fault...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ruwenzori_Range.html (113 words)

	East Africa's Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Included among these are Africa's highest peak, Mt Kilimanjaro (5,895 m or 19,340 ft) in Tanzania; Mt. Kenya (5199 m or 17,058 ft) just 200 miles to the north in Kenya; and the Ruwenzori range (with peaks above 5000m or 16,000 ft)--the fabled Mountains of the Moon--along the Uganda-Zaire border.
		The regional vegetation of the lowlands (broadleaf evergreen forest west of the Ruwenzori and tropical savanna to the east, as shown here) extends up to elevations of about 1300 m.
		There is a high degree of endemism among the plant species of the Afro-alpine zone, which have been isolated on individual peaks since the late Pleistocene.
	www.runet.edu /~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/lifezone/eastafr.html (318 words)

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