Mount Stanley, Congo DRC/Uganda

Highest Summit	Margherita Peak
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	0° 23' 9'' N; 29° 52' 22'' E 0.385939, 29.872726 (Dec Deg) 819790E 42712N Zone 35 (UTM)
Country	Congo DRC (Highest Point) Uganda (Highest Point)
State/Province	Nord-Kivu (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Stanley":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Lists that contain Mount Stanley:      Africa Range3 High Points (Rank #3)      Africa Country High Points (Rank #3)      Africa 4000-meter Peaks (Rank #4)      Largest-Area Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #11)      World Country High Points (Rank #26)      World Top 50 by Prominence (Rank #27)      World Top 100 by Prominence (Rank #27)      World Drainage Basin High Points over 5000 m high (Rank #37) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Voices from the Mountains (Venables) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2010-01-04 by Rob Woodall      2010-01-04 by Petter Bjørstad View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Mount Stanley      Elevation Ladder from Mount Stanley      Prominence Ladder from Mount Stanley

Mount Stanley, Africa: Margherita Peak to right, Alexandra Peak at center. Photo courtesy of Ken Jones.
Web Map Links	Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Prominence	Clean Prominence: 3951 m/12,963 ft Optimistic Prominence: 3951 m/12,963 ft Key Col: 1158 m/3799 ft     Key Col Lat/Long: 3° 46' 33'' N; 32° 52' 44'' E     Key Col Map Links: Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Isolation	829.81 km/515.62 mi Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Kenya  (E) Isolation distance is based on NHN and is slightly overstated.
Ranges	Continent: Africa Range2: East Africa Mountains Range3: East Rift Valley Ranges (Highest Point) Range4: Ruwenzori (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Nile (HP) Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Ruwenzori Mountains National Park (Highest Point)/Parc National des Virunga (Highest Point)
First Ascent	1906 Duke of Abruzzi (Italy)
Google Maps Dynamic Map  Mount Stanley    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

The approach to Mount Stanley traverses bogs of deep mud. Photo courtesy of Ken Jones.

Happy climbers atop both Uganda and the Congo on Margherita Peak, Mount Stanley. Photo courtesy of Ken Jones.

This page has been served 11635 times since 2004-11-01.