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https://web.archive.org/web/20051224155242/http://www.kenyaforests.org/reports/Marsabitstatus.pdf
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It was here, near a body of water they dubbed Lake Paradise, that American explorers
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spent time in the 1920s living and making wildlife documentaries.
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Elevation
Coordinates
2°19′N 37°58′E / 2.317°N 37.967°E / 2.317; 37.967
Eastern Province
Kenya
Mountain type
shield volcano
Last eruption
shield volcano
Kenya
East African Rift
Marsabit County
Marsabit
Miocene
maar
Marsabit National Park
Martin and Osa Johnson
List of volcanoes in Kenya
"Marsabit"
Global Volcanism Program
Smithsonian Institution
"About Martin and Osa Johnson"
https://web.archive.org/web/20051224155242/http://www.kenyaforests.org/reports/Marsabitstatus.pdf
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Eastern Province (Kenya)
stub
expanding it
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