[roo-wuh
n-zawr-ee, -zohr-ee] 
| a mountain group in central Africa between Lake Albert and Lake Edward: sometimes identified with Ptolemy's “Mountains of the Moon.” Highest peak, Mt. Ngaliema (Stanley), with two summits: Mt. Margherita, 16,795 ft. (5119 m), and Mt. Alexandra, 16,726 ft. (5098 m). |
| Ru·wen·zo·ri (rōō'wən-zôr'ē, -zōr'ē) A mountain range of east-central Africa on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The range was explored in 1889 by Henry M. Stanley and is generally thought to be the geographer Ptolemy's Mountains of the Moon, which the ancients erroneously supposed was the source of the Nile River. |