Prominence 2,081 m | Elevation 4,001 m Listing Ultra-prominent peak | |
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Similar Ol Donyo Sabuk, Mount Kipipiri, Table Mountain, Batian, Ol Doinyo Eburru | ||
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Mount Satima, also known as Mount Lesatima and often abbreviated to Satima or Lesatima, is the third-highest mountain in Kenya and the highest in the Aberdare Range. The Maasai name is Oldoinyo Lesatima, which has a variety of alternative spellings, such as Ol Donyo Le Satima, and means "mountain of the bull calf".
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Map of Mount Satima, Kenya
The peak lies at the northern end of the Aberdares, which themselves are along the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley, and is their highest point. Around it stand a number of sharp volcanic cones called "the Dragon's Teeth". There are moraines between 3,600 and 3,800 metres on the north west of the mountain. One book on Kenya has called the mountain itself "a craggy bluff of rock and tussock grass around which the clouds swirl".