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Ruwenzori

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Ru·wen·zo·ri  (rwn-zôr, -zr)
A mountain range of east-central Africa on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The range was explored in 1889 by Henry M. Stanley and is generally thought to be the geographer Ptolemy's Mountains of the Moon, which the ancients erroneously supposed was the source of the Nile River.
Ruwenzori [ˌruːwɛnˈzɔːrɪ]
n
(Placename) a mountain range in central Africa, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre) between Lakes Edward and Albert: generally thought to be Ptolemy's ``Mountains of the Moon''. Highest peak: Mount Stanley, 5109 m (16 763 ft.)
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