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Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Amboseli National Park in Kenya's Kajiado County, in East Africa.

Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Amboseli National Park in Kenya's Kajiado County, in East Africa. Amboseli National Park was created in 1974 from a 1948 game reserve which was formerly a 1906 Maasai reserve, in Kenya. In 1991, the Park was listed as a UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere Reserve." Based on recommendations endorsed by UNESCO, Kenyan presidential directives in 2005 and 2023 transferred control of Amboseli National Park to the local Kajiado County Government, who will share park fees locally. The local people are mainly Maasai, plus others attracted by the tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world. // This dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania is protected within Kilimanjaro National Park, a major hiking and climbing destination. Kilimanjaro is the world's highest single free-standing mountain above sea level: 5,899 m or 19,354 ft (2014 measurement). It's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. Its rapidly shrinking glaciers and ice fields are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035. Of its three volcanic cones, Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while the tallest cone, Kibo, last erupted 360,000 years ago and could erupt again. The oldest cone, Shira erupted from 2.5–1.9 million years ago. Both Mawenzi and Kibo began erupting about 1 million years ago. Mawenzi extinguished 448,000 years ago. In the 1880s, the mountain became a part of German East Africa and was called Kilima-Ndscharo in German. In 1889, Hans Meyer reached the highest summit on the crater ridge of Kibo and named it Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze (Kaiser Wilhelm peak). That name was used until

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Sunrise spotlights Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, seen from Amboseli National Park in Kenya's Kajiado County, in East Africa. Amboseli National Park was created in 1974 from a 1948 game reserve which was formerly a 1906 Maasai reserve, in Kenya. In 1991, the Park was listed as a UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere Reserve." Based on recommendations endorsed by UNESCO, Kenyan presidential directives in 2005 and 2023 transferred control of Amboseli National Park to the local Kajiado County Government, who will share park fees locally. The local people are mainly Maasai, plus others attracted by the tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world. // This dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania is protected within Kilimanjaro National Park, a major hiking and climbing destination. Kilimanjaro is the world's highest single free-standing mountain above sea level: 5,899 m or 19,354 ft (2014 measurement). It's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. Its rapidly shrinking glaciers and ice fields are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035. Of its three volcanic cones, Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while the tallest cone, Kibo, last erupted 360,000 years ago and could erupt again. The oldest cone, Shira erupted from 2.5–1.9 million years ago. Both Mawenzi and Kibo began erupting about 1 million years ago. Mawenzi extinguished 448,000 years ago. In the 1880s, the mountain became a part of German East Africa and was called Kilima-Ndscharo in German. In 1889, Hans Meyer reached the highest summit on the crater ridge of Kibo and named it Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze (Kaiser Wilhelm peak). That name was used until
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