Source Unknown

This scan from Dale. Photo is probably from MK. Origins of the photo unkown.

[Lelamari, Lotal] director-general of Tanzania's National Parks (Tanapa)

Exhibition centre was updated by the Getty Foundation.

closed with torrential rains in December.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

First recorded ascent of Mount Meru by Prof. F Jaeger

its Maasai name means 'Cooking Pot'.

Kilima Njaro (Swahili) Mountain of Greatness, or

Mountain of Caravans,

both translations believed by Rebmann, first European to see the mountain in 1848.

Kilimangare (Maasai) meaning 'hill of water'

Also translated as Shining Mountain, White Mountain, or Mountain of Water

'small heads' in Afrikaans

[Kruuk, Dr. Hans] .. of the Serengeti Research Institute

Maasai - ilemelepo- dry hills

Maasai - oloonkito - place of the stone useful for sharpening knives

Maasai - the black mountain

Major Wildlife Census

Maasai "Amanya-are" "A meeting place of two"

Maasai, Meaning 'that which does not make a noise'

named after the Maasai word given to their ceremonial anklets made from the skin of the colobus monkey

the place of heavy mists

Named after a type of Maasai bowl, which it resembles.

Name of an especially valiant group of Datogo warriors defeated by Maasai after battle in the Crater about 150 years ago

Maasai age set, called the Ilkorongoro, who wrested the highland from their previous occupants, the Datong.

Name of Maasai cattle bell maker who lived in the crater

Name of a grinding stone, which the caldera resembles

Sound of the battle bells that the Maasai wore during the battle [with the Datong], that was supposed to have terrified their enemies into submission was 'koh- rohngroh' and it is from this that Ngorongoro comes

'extra down' in Maasai (A Smith)

Of Kalenjin origin. Name of an age set known variously as Gorongoro, Kerongoro, or Korongoro which was defeated by the Masai about 150-200 years ago. The Kalenjin ethnic group includes the Tatog (Barabaig or Mangati) of Tanzania.

no mentions of eruptions between 1940 and 1966

Maasai for Giant Bamboo 'Arundinaria alpina' - Ol doinyo l'ol tiani

Named after the sansevieria plant (tall, wild sisal, aka bayonet aloe) called Oldupai or ol duvai in Maasai.

River of Mosquitoes

Serengeti . . . derives from Maasai siringet, Meaning 'extended place'

The camp, set up in 1971 in the wildlife-rich lands around Tanzania's Lake Ndutu, was a particularly important training ground for young filmmakers.

The first Europeans to discover Kilimanjaro the legendary burial place of King Solomon, were two German missionaries, Johannes Rebmann and Ludwig Krapf, in 1848. Their tales of a snow-covered peak near the equator, however, were not initially believed.

The Hard Country