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Mount Cameroon, the Glossary

Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the South West region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea.^[1]

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Afromontane
Four-thousanders of Africa
Mountains of Cameroon
National parks of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)
Stratovolcanoes of Africa
Volcanoes of Cameroon

Acanthaceae

Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African forest elephant

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant.

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The Afromontane regions are subregions of the Afrotropical realm, one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms, covering the plant and animal species found in the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

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Ambazonia

Ambazonia, alternatively the Federal Republic of Ambazonia or State of Ambazonia, is a political entity proclaimed by Anglophone separatists who are seeking independence from Cameroon.

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Bay duiker

The bay duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis), also known as the black-striped duiker and the black-backed duiker, is a forest-dwelling duiker native to western and southern Africa.

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Blue duiker

The blue duiker (Philantomba monticola) is a small antelope found in central, southern and eastern Africa.

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Buea

Buea is the capital of the Southwest Region of Cameroon.

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Buttress root

Buttress roots, also known as plank roots, are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Cameroon line

The Cameroon line (Linha dos Camarões) is a long chain of volcanoes that includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains on the African mainland, from Mount Cameroon on the coast towards Lake Chad on the northeast. Mount Cameroon and Cameroon line are mountains of Cameroon and volcanoes of Cameroon.

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Cape bushbuck

The Cape bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), also known as imbabala is a common, medium-sized bushland-dwelling, and a widespread species of antelope in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Chimpanzee

The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.

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Collared mangabey

The collared mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus), also called red-capped mangabey and white-collared mangabey, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae of Old World monkeys.

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Crested mona monkey

The crested mona monkey, also known as the crowned guenon, crowned monkey, golden-bellied guenon, or golden-bellied monkey, (Cercopithecus pogonias), is a species of African primate in the family Cercopithecidae found in west central Africa.

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Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests

The Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of west-central Africa.

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Crustose lichen

Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction.

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Debundscha

Debundscha is a village in the south-western Region of the republic of Cameroon.

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Drill (animal)

The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to mandrills.

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Elaeis

Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Foliose lichen

A foliose lichen is a lichen with flat, leaf-like, which are generally not firmly bonded to the substrate on which it grows.

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Fruticose lichen

A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy growth structure.

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Greater spot-nosed monkey

The greater spot-nosed monkey or putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) is one of the smallest Old World monkeys.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Impatiens etindensis

Impatiens etindensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae.

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Impatiens grandisepala

Impatiens grandisepala is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae.

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International Union of Geological Sciences

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology.

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Joseph Merrick (missionary)

Joseph Merrick (August 1808 – 22 October 1849) was a Jamaican Baptist missionary who, assisted by Joseph Jackson Fuller, established the first successful mission on the Cameroon coast of Africa.

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Lake Nyos

Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé, the capital. Mount Cameroon and lake Nyos are active volcanoes.

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Lake Nyos disaster

On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

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Liana

A liana is a long-stemmed woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.

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List of mountain peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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List of volcanoes in Cameroon

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Cameroon. Mount Cameroon and list of volcanoes in Cameroon are volcanoes of Cameroon.

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Mary Kingsley

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, writer and explorer who made numerous travels through West Africa and wrote several books on her experiences there.

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Mona monkey

The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon.

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Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests

The Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in central Africa.

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Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope (in French, "La Course de l'Espoir") is an annual, televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Region of Cameroon in January or February.

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Mount Cameroon speirops

The Mount Cameroon speirops or Cameroon speirops (Zosterops melanocephalus) is a species of bird in the disputed family Zosteropidae, which might be included in the Timaliidae.

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Mount Cameroon spurfowl

The Mount Cameroon spurfowl (Pternistis camerunensis) is a bird species in the pheasant family Phasianidae.

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Preuss's monkey

The Preuss's monkey (Allochrocebus preussi), also known as Preuss's guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous (up to 2500 m) forests of eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon and Bioko in Equatorial Guinea.

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Red river hog

The red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) or bushpig (a name also used for Potamochoerus larvatus) is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests.

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Red-eared guenon

The red-eared guenon (Cercopithecus erythrotis), also called red-eared monkey or russet-eared guenon, is a primate species in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Sarah Etonge

Sarah Liengu Etonge (born in Buea, Southwest Province, Cameroon) is a fell runner.

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Scrambling

Scrambling is a mountaineering term for ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.

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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.

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Southwest Region (Cameroon)

The Southwest Region or South-West Region is a region in Cameroon.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Topographic isolation

The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Tussock grass

Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Yellow-backed duiker

The yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a shy, forest-dwelling antelope of the order Artiodactyla, from the family Bovidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cameroon

Also known as Cameroon Mountain, Fako, Fako Mountain, Mongo ma Loba, Mongo ma Ndemi, Mongo-ma-Loba, Mongo-ma-Ndemi, Mont Cameroun, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Fako, Mt Cameroon, Mt Fako, Mt. Cameroon, Mt. Fako.

, Stratovolcano, Sub-Saharan Africa, Topographic isolation, Topographic prominence, Tussock grass, Ultra-prominent peak, Volcano, Yellow-backed duiker.

Mount Cameroon, the Glossary

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See also

Afromontane

Four-thousanders of Africa

Mountains of Cameroon

National parks of Cameroon

Southwest Region (Cameroon)

Stratovolcanoes of Africa

Volcanoes of Cameroon

References