Bismarck (mountain)
| Bismarck | ||
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| location | Zimbabwe | |
| Coordinates | 17 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 32 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| rock | granite | |
The mountain Bismarck ( English Mount Bismarck ) is a two-capped mountain in northeast Zimbabwe in Africa. Its discoverer, the Africa explorer Karl Mauch , named it after Otto Fürst von Bismarck . Mauch discovered and named the nearby Moltkeberg in 1872 .
Both mountains are granite massifs. The large "Kaiser Wilhelm Goldfeld" lies between the two mountains.
More mountains with the same name
- the 2300 m high Mount Bismarck in Namibia .
- Mount Bismarck in Victoria , Australia was during the First World War in Mount Kitchener renamed.
literature
- FO Bernhard (Ed.): Karl Mauch - African Explorer. Struik, Cape Town 1981, ISBN 0-86977-002-0 (mainly consisting of translations of mentions of Mauch in A. Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen. 1866–1874).
- Peter Hertel: To the ruins of Zimbabwe. Klett-Perthes, Gotha 2000, ISBN 3-623-00356-5 .
- Meyers Konversationslexikon . 6th edition. 1920, Volume 2, p. 981.
References
- ^ Frederic Courtney Selous: Twenty Years in Zambesia. In: The Geographical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 4 (April 1893), ISSN 0016-7398 , pp. 289-322, JSTOR 1773894 ; Twenty Years in Zambesia: Discussion. Pp. 322-324, JSTOR 1773895 .
- ^ Henry Schlichter: Travels and Researches in Rhodesia. In: The Geographical Journal. Vol. 13, No. 4 (April 1899), pp. 376-391, JSTOR 1774826 .
- ↑ Dave Nutting: Australian place names with a German background (in Australian states except South Australia). (No longer available online.) In: germanaustralia.com. 2001, archived from the original on July 26, 2016 ; accessed on November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Thomas Liebecke: The German place names in Australia »2. German immigration and place names. »2.1 New South Wales and Victoria. In: onomastik.com, March 11, 2005, accessed November 13, 2019.