Rotundu is a flat, heavily forested
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
on the side of
Mount Kenya. It's formed by a near-perpendicular wall raising from a height of approximately
above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...
and finally flattening above the peak's base. The flat land on the peak also hosts
Lake Rotundu (. Some of the plants found on the peak are puzzling, as one would not expect to find them growing at that altitude.
References
Mountains of Kenya
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