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Virunga Mountains

Virunga Mountains

Aerial view of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in Virunga National Park, showing a glowing lava lake with smoke rising from the crater, surrounded by rocky caldera walls.

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Mount Kenya in Mount Kenya National Park is the highest mountain in Africa. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Giant Lobelia in foreground. (Mt. Kenya; Mt. Kenya National Park; mountains; rugged mountain; African geography, African landscape, stratovolcano)

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