Kilima-Njaro

Kilima-Njaro, an isolated mountain mass in East Africa, standing between Victoria Nyanza and the coast, just within the northern limit of the German East African Company's territory, in 3° 20' S. lat. and 37° 50' E. long. The mass consists of two peaks, or rather craters, Kibo and Kimawenzi, connected by a broad saddle (14,000 feet) studded with lava hills. Kibo was climbed by Dr Meyer in October 1889. Its highest point is about 19,680 feet above sea-level; its crater is 650 feet deep and 6500 feet in diameter. At the same time he climbed the second highest pinnacle of Kimawenzi, and found it to be more than 17,250 feet high. The crater rim of both peaks is covered with a thick crust of ice. See Petermann's Mitteilungen, vol. xxxvi. No. 1; also H. H. Johnston's Kilimanjaro Expedition (1886).