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For one thing, [[Kilimanjaro]] ''doesn’t'' rise above the [[Serengeti]]. You can’t even ''see'' it from the [[Serengeti]], unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope: they’re about | For one thing, [[Kilimanjaro]] ''doesn’t'' rise above the [[Serengeti]]. You can’t even ''see'' it from the [[Serengeti]], unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope: they’re about 250 kilometres from each other.<ref>From the ground, all but the top 900m of a 6,000 metre mountain would be over the horizon. Check it out for yourself at [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature this earth curvature calculator]! I am reliably informed that an object 1km tall 300km away would appear about 3mm high. If you could even see it through the trees, atmospheric perspective etc., this is not really rising at all, let alone like Olympus, or even a sleepy leopress. </ref> | ||
[[Kilimanjaro]] rises above the [[Tsavo]] national park.<ref>Why ''didn’t'' he put “Tsavo”? It would have scanned better.</ref> | |||
And Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn’t rise above the [[Serengeti]]. It’s in Greece. | And Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn’t rise above the [[Serengeti]]. It’s in Greece. | ||