Point Lenana
mountain peak, Kenya
Also known as: Lenana
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peaks of Mount Kenya
- In East African mountains: Physiography
…closely followed in height by Lenana (16,355 feet).
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… (17,022 feet [5,188 metres]), and Point Lenana (16,355 feet [4,985 metres]). This long-extinct volcano is much eroded, and the highest peaks consist of the crystalline nepheline syenite that plugged the former vent. Radiating from the central peaks are ridges separated by seven principal valleys. Several small, retreating glaciers, of which…
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