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{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Baker
| photo = Mount Baker (Ruwenzori) from Bujuku Hut.jpg
| photo_caption = Mount Baker seen from Bujuku hut.
| elevation_m = 4844
| elevation_ref =
| prominence_m = 474
| prominence_ref =
| map = Uganda
| map_caption =
| map_size = 200
| label_position = right
| location = Uganda
| range = Rwenzori Mountains
| coordinates = {{coord|0|22|00|N|29|54|00|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref =
| topo =
| type =
| age =
| last_eruption =
| first_ascent = 10 June 1906 by Duke of the Abruzzi, Joseph Petigax, Cesar Ollier and Josef Brocherel
| easiest_route =
}}

Mount Baker or Kiyanja is a mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda, {{convert|2.8|km|mi|1}} from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a height of {{convert|4844|m|ft|0}}, it is the sixth highest mountain in Africa.{{fact|date=October 2015}} Together with Mount Stanley and Mount Speke, it forms a triangle enclosing the upper Bujuku Valley. The nearest peak is Mount Stanley, which is {{convert|2.26|km|mi}} to the west.[1] The mountains lie within an area called "The Mountains of the Moon".

Like all peaks in the Ruwenzori Range, Mount Baker has multiple jagged peaks along a ridge. The highest is Edward Peak.

The ridge line of Mount Baker was first reached in January 1906 by the Austrian mountaineer Rubert Grauer accompanied by two British missionaries, H. E. Maddox and H. W. Tegart. In February of that year and again in April, the same rocky point was reached by an English expedition, including Alexander F. R. Wollaston, A. B. Wosnam, and M. Carruthers.[2] The highest point of Mount Baker was finally climbed in June by an expedition led by the Duke of the Abruzzi, which climbed all peaks of the other five highest mountains of the Rwenzori, .

The Bakonjo name for the mountain seems to have been (and currently is) "Kiyanja". On his June 1891 expedition into the Ruwenzori, Franz Stuhlmann observed the peak and named it either "Semper" or "Ngemwimbi". Abruzzi renamed the mountain after Samuel Baker, a 19th-century British explorer who in 1864 was the first European to sight and visit Lake Albert, just northeast of the Ruwenzori Mountains, and who had reported to glimpse "great mountainous masses away in the distance, to the south of Lake Albert."[2]

References

1. ^{{cite peakbagger |pid=11162 |name=Mount Baker, Uganda}}
2. ^Climbing history before 1906, at www.rwenzoriabruzzi.com.
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3 : Rwenzori Mountains|Mountains of Uganda|Four-thousanders of Africa

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