KENYA, UGANDA & TANZANIA (British East Africa).
East African mountains. Mount Kenya.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 04.03.1968.
Face value: 50 cents of East African shilling.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 44 x 28 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 170.
- Scott No. 182.
- StampWorld No. 140.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 245.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 167.
Mount Kenya (Kĩrĩnyaga, in Kamba language; Ol Donyo Keri in Maasai language) is an extinct stratovolcano created approximately 3 million years after the opening of the East African Rift. It is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The highest peak of the mountain is Batian, 5,199 m (17,058 ft), located about 16.5 kilometers (10 1⁄4 miles) south of the equator, around 150 km (90 mi) north-northeast of the Kenya capital city, Nairobi. Mount Kenya is the source of the name of the country. The first European to climb it was probably the Englishman Halford Mackinder in 1899. In 1949 the Mount Kenya National Park was created, to protect the region surrounding the mountain, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1978 and World Heritage Site in 1997.
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