Adding a mountain

–> Click to reveal the map <–

EXAMPLE: VESUVIUS DATA NEW MOUNTAIN DATA (try to fill as many boxes as possible)
Vesuvius
Lat: 40.821 Lat:
Lon: 14.426 Lon:
Italian Peninsula and Islands
Apennines
Italy
1281 m m
GMT + 1.0h GMT + h (use "-" for negative timezones, as in the US)
June, July, August
Naples, Italy
Walk up
Vesuvius is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It is located just ten miles southeast of Naples, and the same distance north of Pompeii. It is a deeply scarred but gently sloping mountain, which steepens near the summit. Its steep, well-defined summit crater is 2,300 feet across, and hundreds of tourists climb the trail every day in summer to peek over its rim. Its most famous eruption was in 79 A.D., an eruption which buried Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae, all of which remained buried until archeologists dug them out seventeen centuries later. Other violent eruptions have occurred in 1631, 1779, 1794, 1822, 1872, 1906, 1929, and 1944, and again communities have been destroyed with some of these eruptions. Still, the people of the mountain invariably return to their lives, farming grapes, oranges, lemons, vegetables, and walnuts at the mountain's fertile base.