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Margherita Peak
Margherita Peak, on Mount Stanley (Mount Ngaliéma) in the Ruwenzori Range, on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
Mount Stanley
mountain, Africa
Also known as: Mount Ngaliéma
- Also called:
- Mount Ngaliéma
Mount Stanley, part of the Ruwenzori Range on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, in east- central Africa. Stanley contains 9 of the 10 peaks that rise above 16,000 feet (4,900 metres), including the highest in the range, Margherita Peak (16,762 feet [5,109 metres]). There are glaciers and glacial lakes. In the late 1880s Henry Morton Stanley became the first European to reach the range.