کوه رورایما

کوه رورایما
کوه رورایما
	Mt. Roraima during the wet season
مرتفع‌ترین نقطه
ارتفاع	۲٬۸۱۰ متر (۹٬۲۲۰ فوت)
برجستگی	۲٬۳۳۸ متر (۷٬۶۷۱ فوت)
فهرست‌بندی	بلندترین نقطه کشور; قله بسیار برجسته
مختصات	۵°۰۸′۳۶″ شمالی ۶۰°۴۵′۴۵″ غربی / ۵٫۱۴۳۳۳°شمالی ۶۰٫۷۶۲۵۰°غربی
جغرافیا
	کوه رورایما Location of Mount Roraima in South America (on border between Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela)
موقعیت	ونزوئلا/برزیل/گویان
کشور	ونزوئلا; برزیل; گویان
رشته‌کوه مادر	سپر گویان
زمین‌شناسی
نوع کوه	فلات
صعود
نخستین صعود	1884, led by Sir Everard im Thurn and accompanied by Harry Inniss Perkins and several Guyanese natives
آسان‌ترین مسیر	پیاده‌گردی

کوه رورایما (اسپانیایی: Monte Roraima; Tepuy Roraima‎) یک کوه در کشورهای ونزوئلا، برزیل و گویان است که بلندترین نقطه آن ۲۸۱۰ متر است.

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منابع

↑ "Monte Roraima, Venezuela". Peakbagger.com.
↑ From The Times (May 22, 1885), "Mr. im Thurn's Achievement" (PDF), The New York Times, New York City, United States: The New York Times Company, p. 3, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 1645522, retrieved November 15, 2009, Lord Aberdare said that Mr. Perkins, who accompanied Mr. im Thurn in the ascent of the mountain, had fared little better, inasmuch as he also had been severely attacked by fever since his return, and though present that evening, was still too weak to read his notes.
↑ im Thurn, Everard (August 1885), "The Ascent of Mount Roraima", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, London, England, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing, on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, with the Institute of British Geographers, 7 (8): 497–521, doi:10.2307/1800077, ISSN 0266-626X, JSTOR 1800077, OCLC 51205375, retrieved November 14, 2009, For all around wore rocks and pinnacles of rocks of seemingly impossibly fantastic forms, standing in apparently impossibly fantastic ways—nay, placed one on or next to the other in positions seeming to defy every law of gravity—rocks in groups, rocks standing singly, rocks in terraces, rocks as columns, rocks as walls and rooks as pyramids, rocks ridiculous at every point with countless apparent caricatures of the faces and forms of men and animals, apparent caricatures of umbrellas, tortoises, churches, cannons, and of innumerable other most incongruous and unexpected objects.

پیوند به بیرون

Mount Roraima Information
Mount Roraima on SummitPost.org
National Geographic's 2004 Biological Exploration of the Cliffs
Dias de Tempestade (Days of Storm) - 28-minute short documentary on Vimeo (in Portuguese, with English subtitles) showing the 2010 climb of Mount Roraima from the Guyana side by Brazilian climber Eliseu Frechou and his team.

[Peakbagger1-1] "Monte Roraima, Venezuela". Peakbagger.com.

[NYTimes1-2] From The Times (May 22, 1885), "Mr. im Thurn's Achievement" (PDF), The New York Times, New York City, United States: The New York Times Company, p. 3, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 1645522, retrieved November 15, 2009, Lord Aberdare said that Mr. Perkins, who accompanied Mr. im Thurn in the ascent of the mountain, had fared little better, inasmuch as he also had been severely attacked by fever since his return, and though present that evening, was still too weak to read his notes.

[ImThurn1-3] Thurn, Everard (August 1885), "The Ascent of Mount Roraima", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, London, England, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing, on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, with the Institute of British Geographers, 7 (8): 497–521, doi:10.2307/1800077, ISSN 0266-626X, JSTOR 1800077, OCLC 51205375, retrieved November 14, 2009, For all around wore rocks and pinnacles of rocks of seemingly impossibly fantastic forms, standing in apparently impossibly fantastic ways—nay, placed one on or next to the other in positions seeming to defy every law of gravity—rocks in groups, rocks standing singly, rocks in terraces, rocks as columns, rocks as walls and rooks as pyramids, rocks ridiculous at every point with countless apparent caricatures of the faces and forms of men and animals, apparent caricatures of umbrellas, tortoises, churches, cannons, and of innumerable other most incongruous and unexpected objects.