why is mt rwenzori snow capped?
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The Greek geographer, astronomer and mathematician, Ptolemy famously coined the name 'Mountains of The Moon' in reference to the Rwenzori Mountains of Western Uganda that had for a long time mystified the ancient Greeks who believed them to be the long sort-after true source of the Nile.
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Siroccos are hot, dry winds from North Africa, that may bring high temperatures to the region. Winter winds called foehns blow down from the mountains into valleys and plains. Foehns can trigger avalanches, destructive masses of ice, snow, and rock sliding down mountainsides.
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Most of South Africa's landscape is made up of high, flat areas called plateaus. These lands are covered with rolling grasslands, called highveld, and tree-dotted plains called bushveld. To the east, south, and west of the plateau lands is a mountainous region called the Great Escarpment.
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Dome mountains are the result of a great amount of melted rock (magma) pushing its way up under the earth crust. Without actually erupting onto the surface, the magma pushes up overlaying rock layers. At some point, the magma cools and forms hardened rock.
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Mt Eden (Maungawhau) is one of the most prominent volcanic cones remaining in the Auckland region. Erupting about 15,000 years ago from three overlapping scoria cones, it formed a huge scoria mound with a central crater from the last eruption.
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Mount Kilimanjaro | Climbing Mt Kili A free-standing, snow-covered dormant volcano, majestic Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. Located in northeast Tanzania, it can be seen from far into Kenya and Amboseli National Park.
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Mount Kosciuszko, also spelled Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak, rising to an elevation of 7,310 feet (2,228 metres) in the Snowy Mountains of the Australian Alps, southeastern New South Wales.
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The ice caps are fresh water because the water can freeze, or become snow and fall down, but it is not cold enough for the salt water to freeze, or to form snow.
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Land on top of the mountain and that part of the challenge will be complete. Next there's the desert face, which is on the southern border of the map. Once again, all you have to do is land on top of the mountain to get credit for this face. The snow face is in the southwest.
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['The Barberton Makhonjwz Mountain land is the first UNESCO world heritage site in the province Mpumalanga.', 'It shares border with Gauteng and Limpoo.', 'These mountains are also known as Barberton mountains or Barberton Greenstone Belt.', 'They contain oldest and best preserved volcanic and sedimentary rocks on the planet.']
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These mountains were named 'Rwenzori' by Henry M. Stanley, a European explorer. He named this range after an African native word that means 'rainmaker'. And, it's indeed rainmaker as rain feeds the dense foliage and falls on the Rwenzori Mountains for up to around 350 days each year.
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Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area. It shares borders with the South African provinces of Limpopo to the north, Gauteng to the west, the Free State to the southwest, and KwaZulu-Natal to the south. The capital is Mbombela.
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In tropical climes, animals and plants aren't adapted to surviving freezing temperatures - and why would they be? ... The saying goes that "mountain passes are higher in the tropics" - that is, tropical mountain passes are stronger barriers to the dispersal of organisms than temperate-zone passes of equivalent altitudes.
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Drakensberg. At 3,482m, the Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Explain the formation of a corrie. Corries are geological features that are formed through glaciation. The glacier sticks to the sides of the valley and, as it moves, pulls away large chunks of rock in a process known as plucking. During the colder months, water gets into cracks in the rocks and freezes.
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['Mountains. As a rule the land-surface is much broken, hilly, and in parts mountainous. ... ', 'Plains. An extensive plain of marine origin, the Wanganui, lies between the Ruahine Mountains and Mount Egmont extending to Ruapehu where it is over 600 m. ... ', 'Rivers. ... ', 'Lakes. ... ', 'Sea-coast.']
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The Lowveld is the name given to two areas that lie at an elevation of between 500 and 2,000 feet (150 and 600 metres) above sea level. One area is in the South African provinces of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Swaziland, and the other…