Mount Longonot
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Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s.[1] Its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot, meaning "mountains of many spurs" or "steep ridges".
Mount Longonot | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,776 m (9,108 ft)[1] |
Listing | Volcanoes in Kenya |
Coordinates | 0°54′55″S 36°27′25″E |
Naming | |
Native name | Oloonong'ot (Masai) |
Geography | |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
Last eruption | 1863 ± 5 years[1] |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | Scramble |
Mount Longonot is protected by the Kenya Wildlife Service as part of Mount Longonot National Park. A 3.1 km trail runs from the park entrance up to the crater rim, and continues in a 7.2 km loop encircling the crater. The whole tour (gate-around the rim-gate) of 13.5 km takes about 4–5 hours allowing for necessary rest breaks - parts of the trail are heavily eroded and very steep. The gate elevation is around 2150 m and the peak at 2776 m but following the jagged rim involves substantially more than the 630 m vertical difference.
Mount Longonot is 60 kilometres northwest of Nairobi and may be reached from there by a tarmac road. A nearby town is also named Longonot. The Longonot satellite earth station is located south of the mountain.