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See also:MFUMBIRO, or KIRUNGA , See also:general names for a See also:chain of volcanic mountains extending across the Central See also:African, or Albertine, rift-valley immediately See also:north of See also:Lake See also:Kivu. The range, the result probably of See also:recent See also:geological changes, completely blocks the valley at this point, forming a See also:divide between the See also:rivers flowing north to the See also:Nile and the See also:waters of Lake Kivu, connected through See also:Tanganyika with the See also:Congo See also:system. The chain consists of two See also:groups of mountains, surrounded by a vast See also:lava See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. The western See also:group lies directly north of Lake Kivu, and contains two active volcanoes, Kirunga-cha-gongo, the nearest to the lake (11,194 ft. high), and Kirunga-namlagira(9711 ft.), some ro m. further north. The eastern group contains several higher peaks—some rising to See also:needle-like points, others being truncated cones. The most lofty, Karissimbi (14,683 ft.), lies in 29° 27' 20" E., 1° 30' 20" S. Mikeno, a few See also:miles north and See also:west of Karissimbi, is 14,385 ft. high. The most easterly of the peaks, Muhavuru (13,562 ft.), in 29° 40' 30" E., 1° 23' S., is an isolated sugarloaf-shaped See also:mass with a See also:crater filled with See also:water on its See also:summit. This is the See also:mountain to which the names Mfumbiro and Kirunga were originally applied. Some 6 m. west and a little north of Muhavuru is Sabyino (Sabinjo), 11,881 ft. high. The eastern peaks are snowclad for a See also:part of the See also:year. North of these high mountains is a See also:district, extending towards See also:Albert See also:Edward See also:Nyanza, containing hundreds of See also:low peaks and See also:extinct volcanoes. It is to this region that the name Umfumbira or Mfumbiro is said properly to belong.
Mfumbiro, i.e. Muhavuru, was first seen by a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:man in 1861, J. H. See also:Speke, in his See also:journey to discover the source of the Nile, obtaining a distant view of the See also:cone, which was also seen by H. M. See also:Stanley in 1876. By its Baganda name of Mfumbiro (See also:cook-See also:house mountains) it figured on the maps somewhat See also:east of its true position, first ascertained by See also:Franz Stuhlmann in 1891. In 1894 See also:Count von Gotzen travelled through the volcanic region, and the range was subsequently explored by E. S. Grogan, See also:Major St See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:Gibbons, See also:Captain Herrmann, Dr R. Kandt and others, the See also:principal heights being determined in 1903. In 1907-1908 the range was geologically and topographically examined by the See also:duke of Mecklenberg's expedition. By the Anglo-See also:German agreement of the 1st of See also:July 1890 " See also:Mount Mfumbiro " was included in the See also:British See also:sphere in East See also:Africa.
See Captain Herrmann, " Vulkangebiet See also:des zentralafrikanischen Grabens," in Mitteil. v. Forsch. u. Gelehrten a. d. deutschen Schutzgebieten, vol. xvii. (See also:Berlin, 1904), and Adolf See also:Friedrich, duke of See also:Mecklenburg, Ins Innerste Afrika (See also:Leipzig, 1909) ; both give maps.
End of Article: MFUMBIRO, or KIRUNGA
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