Gunung Roraima

Gunung Roraima
Gunung Roraima
	Gunung Roraima
Titik tertinggi
Ketinggian	2.810 m (9.220 ft)
Puncak	2.338 m (7.671 ft)
Masuk dalam daftar	Country high point; Ultra prominent peak
Geografi
	Gunung Roraima Lokasi di wilayah Venezuela (di perbatasan antara Guyana dan Brazil)
Letak	Venezuela/Brasil/Guyana
Pegunungan	Dataran tinggi Guyana
Geologi
Jenis gunung	Plateau
Pendakian
Pendakian pertama	1884, dipimpin oleh Sir Everard im Thurn bersama Harry Inniss Perkins dan beberapa orang penduduk lokal guyana
Rute termudah	Pendakian

Gunung Roraima (bahasa Spanyol: Monte Roraima [ˈmonte roˈɾaima], juga dikenal sebagai Tepuy Roraima atau Cerro Roraima; bahasa Portugis: Monte Roraima [ˈmõtʃi ʁoˈɾajmɐ]) adalah daerah tertinggi di jajaran Pakaraima dataran tinggi tepui, Amerika Selatan. Pertama kali dideskripsikan oleh seorang penjelajah Inggris Sir Walter Raleigh pada tahun 1596. Area puncaknya seluas 31 km² dan pada semua sisinya dibatasi tebing tegak setinggi 400 meter (1.300 ft). Gunung ini merupakan wilayah dari 3 negara yaitu: Venezuela (mengklaim 85% teritorialnya), Brasil (5%) dan Guyana (10%).

Referensi

^ ^a ^b "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, hlm. 3, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 1645522, diakses tanggal 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, diakses tanggal 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.

Bacaan lanjutan

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[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, hlm. 3, ISSN 0362-4331, OCLC 1645522, diakses tanggal 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, diakses tanggal 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.

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