Mount Cameroon
| Mount Cameroon | |
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Craters left after the eruptions in 2000
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,040 m (13,250 ft) |
| Prominence | 3,901 m (12,799 ft) Ranked 31st |
| Isolation | 2,338 kilometres (1,453 mi) |
| Listing |
Country high point Ultra |
| Coordinates | 4°13′00″N 9°10′21″E / 4.21667°N 9.17250°ECoordinates: 4°13′00″N 9°10′21″E / 4.21667°N 9.17250°E |
| Geography | |
 Mount Cameroon
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| Location | Southwest Province, Cameroon |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
| Last eruption | May to September 2000 |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Joseph Merrick, 1840s |
| Easiest route | Scramble |
Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its native name Mongo ma Ndemi ("Mountain of Greatness"). It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa, the fourth most prominent peak in Africa and the 31st most prominent in the world.
The mountain is part of the area of volcanic activity known as the Cameroon Volcanic Line, which also includes Lake Nyos, the site of a disaster in 1986. The most recent eruption occurred on February 3, 2012.
Mount Cameroon is one of Africa's largest volcanoes, rising to 4,040 metres (13,255 ft) above the coast of west Cameroon. It rises from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit which is cold, windy, and occasionally dusted with snow. The massive steep-sided volcano of dominantly basaltic-to-trachybasaltic composition forms a volcanic horst constructed above a basement of Precambrian metamorphic rocks covered with Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments. More than 100 small cinder cones, often fissure-controlled parallel to the long axis of the massive 1,400-cubic-kilometre (336 cu mi) volcano, occur on the flanks and surrounding lowlands. A large satellitic peak, Etinde (also known as Little Mount Cameroon), is located on the southern flank near the coast. Mount Cameroon has the most frequent eruptions of any West African volcano. The first written account of volcanic activity could be the one from the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator, who might have observed the mountain in the 5th century BC. Moderate explosive and effusive eruptions have occurred throughout history from both summit and flank vents. A 1922 eruption on the southwestern flank produced a lava flow that reached the Atlantic coast, and a lava flow from a 1999 south-flank eruption stopped only 200 m (660 ft) from the sea, cutting the coastal highway.
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