List of mountains
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The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven Summits):
- Mount Everest, Asia (8,850 m)
- Aconcagua, South America (6,959 m)
- Mount McKinley (Denali), North America (6,194 m)
- Kilimanjaro, Africa (5,895 m)
- Mount Elbrus, Europe (5,642 m) (or Mont Blanc (4,810 m))
- Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
- Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) (or Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania (4,884 m))
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Eight-thousanders
The 14 "eight-thousanders", 8,000 m or higher, all in the Himalayas:
- Mount Everest (8,850 m)
- K2 (8,611 m)
- Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
- Lhotse (8,545 m)
- Makalu (8,462 m)
- Cho Oyu (8,201 m)
- Dhaulagiri (8,167 m)
- Manaslu (8,163 m)
- Nanga Parbat (8,126 m)
- Annapurna (8,091 m)
- Gasherbrum I (8,068 m)
- Broad Peak (8,047 m)
- Gasherbrum II (8,035 m)
- Shishapangma (8,027 m)
Earth, by continent
Africa
- Cameroon Mountain
- Mount Elgon
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania, highest mountain of Africa
- Mount Sinai - mountain in Egypt where Moses traditionally received the Ten Commandments
- Mount Stanley - Ruwenzori Range
- Table Mountain - Cape Town, South Africa
Antarctica
- Mount Albert Markham (4,282 m)
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Fridtjof Nansen
- Mount Jackson
- Mount Kirkpatrick
- Mount Markham (4,350 m)
- Mount Terror
- Mount Tyree
- Vinson Massif, highest mountain in Antarctica
Asia
- Adam's Peak - Sri Lanka
- Annapurna - #10 in the world
- Mount Apo - highest point in Philippines
- Ararat - Turkish Armenia, landing site, in folkloric elaborations of the biblical account of Noah, of his ark
- Baitou (Paektu) Mountain - highest mountain in Korea, on Chinese/North Korean border
- Belukha - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
- Broad Peak (8047m) - #12 in the world
- Cho Oyu (8201m) - #6 in the world
- Demavend - Iran
- Dhaulagiri (8167m) - #7 in the world
- Doi Inthanon, highest peak in Thailand
- Mount Everest - Himalayas, Nepal, highest mountain in the world
- Mount Fuji - famous Japanese volcano
- Gasherbrum I (8068m) - #11 in the world
- Gasherbrum II (8035m) - #13 in the world
- Gauri Sankar
- Halla Mountain - volcano; highest peak in South Korea
- K2 (8611m) - Pakistan, world's second highest, but a tougher climb than Everest, Part of the Himalayas range
- Kamet - Himalayas, first peak over 25,000 ft to be climbed
- Kanchenjunga (8586m) - #3 in the world, on Nepal-Sikkim border
- Mount Kerinchi - highest point of Barisan Range, Sumatra
- Klyuchevskaya Sopka - Russian volcano
- Mount Kinabalu - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
- Lenin Peak - Russia
- Lhotse (8516m) - #4 in the world, located in Nepal
- Makalu (8462m) - #5 in the world, located in Nepal
- Manaslu (8156m) - #8 in the world, located in Nepal
- Muztagh Tower
- Nanda Devi
- Nanga Parbat (8125m) - #9 in the world, located in Pakistan
- Mount Tambora - Indonesia
- Shishapangma (8013m) - #14 in the world
Europe
Alps
- Dent Blanche - Alps
- Dent du Midi - Alps
- Gran Paradiso - Alps
- Grand Combin - Alps
- Grande Jorasses - Alps
- Grossglockner - Alps, Austria
- Finsteraarhorn - Alps, highest peak of the Bernese Oberland
- Jungfrau - Alps, Switzerland
- Matterhorn - Alps
- Mont Blanc - France, highest mountain of Western Europe
- Monte Rosa - Alps
- Piz Palu - Alps
- Mount Pilatus - Alps near Lucerne
- Mount Rigi - Alps near Lucerne
- Schlern - Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy
- Mount Titlis - Alps
- Weisshorn - Alps
- Wetterhorn - Alps
See also: Peaks and passes of the Alps
Balkans and Cyprus
- Mount Ainos - Greece
- Hymettus - east of Athens, Greece
- Montserrat - Spain
- Mount Korab - highest point in Albania
- Mount Olympus - legendary home of the Greek gods, also the highest in Greece.
- Panachaicus - northernmost mountain of the Peloponnese, east of Patras, Greece.
- Mount Parnassus - Greece
- Vergina - Greece
See also: List of mountains in Greece.
Caucasus
- Mount Elbrus - highest mountain in Caucasus
- Mount Kazbek - second highest mountain in Caucasus
Great Britain
- Ben Lawers
- Ben Nevis - highest mountain in Great Britain
- Snowdon - highest mountain in Wales
- Scafell Pike - highest mountain in England
- Kinder Scout - highest peak in the Peak District
- Mam Tor - England
Pyrenees
Scandinavia
- [[Galdh�piggen]] - highest point in Norway
- Haltitunturi - highest point in Finland
- Kebnekaise - highest point in Sweden
to be categorised
- Mount Circeo - Italy
- Eiger - Alps, Switzerland
- Mount Elbrus - Russia, highest mountain of Europe
- Etna - volcano on Sicily, Italy
- Hekla - Iceland volcano
- Rigi - Alps overlooking Lake Lucerne
- [[T�di]] - Glarus Alps
- Mount Vesuvius - famous Italian volcano
North America
- Mount Adams - Cascades, Washington
- Mount Assiniboine - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Baker - Cascades, Washington
- Bridge Mountain - Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
- Mount Columbia - Canadian Rockies
- Devils Tower - Wyoming
- Mount Diablo - California
- Mount Edith Cavell - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Foraker - Alaska
- Glacier Peak - Cascades, Washington
- Grand Teton - Wyoming
- Mount Greylock - Massachusetts
- Mount Hood - Cascades, Oregon
- Mount Jackson - Oregon
- Mount Jefferson - Oregon
- Mount Katahdin - at north end of the Appalachian Trail
- Mount Lassen - Cascades, California
- Maroon Bells - Colorado
- Mauna Loa - Hawaii; see Oceania.
- Mount Logan - highest mountain of Canada
- Longs Peak - Rocky Mountain National Park
- Mount McKinley (Denali) - highest mountain in North America
- Mount Mitchell - highest mountain of the Appalachians
- Mount Monadnock - New Hampshire
- Newberry Volcano - Oregon
- Pico de Orizaba - highest point in Mexico
- Mount Olympus - Washington
- Paricutin - Mexico
- Pikes Peak - Colorado
- Popocatepetl - Mexico
- Mount Rainier - Washington
- Mount Robson - Canadian Rockies
- Mount Saint Elias
- Mount Shasta - California
- Mount Shuksan - Cascades
- Mount St. Helens - volcano in the United States
- Mount Stuart - Cascades, Washington
- Mount Timpanogos - Wasatch Range, Utah
- Three Sisters - Oregon
- Mount Waddington - highest mountain in the Coast Mountains range of British Columbia, Canada
- Mount Washington - highest peak in northeastern United States, worst weather in the world
- Wheeler Peak - highest peak in Nevada
- Mount Whitney - highest mountain in Sierra Nevada
Oceania
- Carstensz Pyramid - New Guinea
- Mauna Loa - Hawaii, a volcanic seamount that is earth's largest mountain, when measured from its base under the ocean.
- Mount Cook - New Zealand
- Mount Kosciuszko - highest mountain in Australia
- Mount Ruapehu - New Zealand
- Mount Taranaki - New Zealand (also known as Mt. Egmont)
South America
- Aconcagua - Argentina, highest mountain of South America
- Cerro Torre - Patagonia
- Chimborazo - Ecuador
- Cotopaxi - Ecuador
- [[Pico Crist�bal Col�n]] - Colombia
- Huascaran - highest mountain of Peru
- Illimani - Bolivia
- Mount Roraima - Guyana
- Sugar Loaf Mountain - Rio de Janeiro
Extraterrestrial mountains
- List of mountains on the Moon
- List of mountains on Mercury
- List of mountains on Venus
- List of mountains on Mars
See also: Mountain range, List of mountain ranges, List of volcanoes, List of mountain passes
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_mountains" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
