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List of mountains
The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven Summits):
- Mount Everest, Asia (8,848 m)
- Aconcagua, South America (6,959 m)
- Mount McKinley (Denali), North America (6,194 m)
- Kilimanjaro, Africa (5,895 m)
- Mount Elbrus, Europe (5,642 m) (or Mont Blanc)
- Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4,897 m)
- Mount Kosciuszko, Australia (2,228 m) (or Carstensz Pyramid[?])
The 14 "eight-thousanders[?]", 8,000 m or higher, all in the Himalayas:
- Mount Everest (8,848 m)
- K2 (8,611 m)
- Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
- Lhotse (8,545 m)
- Makalu[?] (8,515 m)
- Cho Oyu[?] (8,201 m)
- Dhaulagiri[?] (8,167 m)
- Manaslu[?] (8,163 m)
- Nanga Parbat[?] (8,126 m)
- Annapurna (8,091 m)
- Gasherbrum I[?] (8,068 m)
- Broad Peak[?] (8,047 m)
- Gasherbrum II[?] (8,035 m)
- Shishapangma[?] (8,027 m)
By continent:
- Adam's Peak - Sri Lanka
- Annapurna
- Mount Apo - highest point in Philippines
- Ararat[?] - Turkey, supposed landing site of Noah's Ark
- Baitou Mountain - highest point of Changbai Mountains
- Belukha - Russia, highest peak in Altai Mountains
- Broad Peak[?]
- Cho Oyu[?]
- Demavend[?] - Iran
- Dhaulagiri[?]
- Doi Inthanon, highest peak in Thailand
- Mount Everest - Himalayas, Nepal, highest mountain in the world
- Mount Fuji - famous Japanese volcano
- Gasherbrum[?]
- Gauri Sankar[?]
- K2 - Pakistan, world's second highest, but a tougher climb than Everest, Part of the Himalayas range
- Kamet[?] - Himalayas, first peak over 25,000 ft to be climbed
- Kanchenjunga - Nepal-Sikkim border, third highest mountain in the world
- Mount Kerinchi[?] - highest point of Barisan Range[?], Sumatra
- Klyuchevskaya Sopka - Russian volcano
- Mount Kinabalu - Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia
- Lenin Peak - Russia
- Lhotse
- Makalu[?]
- Manaslu[?]
- Muztagh Tower
- Nanda Devi[?]
- Nanga Parbat[?]
- Mount Tambora - Indonesia
See also: Mountain range, List of mountain ranges, List of volcanoes