General	Statistics	Mountains of the world
Australian mountains	Photos of mountains	Teaching resources

General Sites

Focus on Mountains. This site contains a fact file on mountains and some information.
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary/focuson/intro.html

The mountain environment. This site provides information about various aspects of the mountain environment including what mountains are, how they are formed, what types there are, the tallest mountains, the mountains around the world and much more.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/mountains.htm

Mountain Statistics

This site lists the world's highest mountains in order of their height
http://www.geohive.com/charts/nat_mountain.php

Explore mountains. This site provides soem statistics about mountains and mountain ranges of the world.
http://www.mountain.org/education/subexplore/explore01.cfm

This site provides a list of the highest mountain peaks of the world. The list includes the name of the mountain, the name of the range, its location and its height
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001771.html

Click on a mountain for a satellite photo
http://www.gesource.ac.uk/worldguide/guide_mountains.html

Mountains of the World

Mountains of the World. Click on a region to bring up a closeup map of that area.
http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/atlas/world.htm

America's Roof. This site provides world coverage and is arranged according to continent. It provides a listing of the world's highest points as well as other geographic links associated with mountains.
http://www.americasroof.com/world.shtml

This is the Mountain Explorer site which features information on over 100 individual peaks, with 64 photos, 70 journal entries, and 30 peak information pages. The World Map page allows a search by continent, region, range, and peak
http://www.peakbagger.com/cont/worldmap.htm

Mountain search.  This new mountain database search facility that fully covers the UK mountain ranges but is now expanding including other regions and continents. Information provided includes the mountain's name, the height, the continent, country and name of the mountain range in which it is situated.
http://www16.brinkster.com/ascent/

The "Mad about Mountains" site includes coverage of mountains in the Lakes District and the Scottish Hills in the United Kingdom, the Italian Dolomites, Zermatt, and other locations, with walking information, poems, and other material.
http://www.keswick.u-net.com/

SummitPost. All Mountains. This site contains information and images of 4,799 mountains of the world. There are several diffent ways of searching the wesite, including alphabetically and by moutain height.
http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/mountain_query.pl/continent/

This site contains some information about Mt Everest. It also includessome games, a quiz, a song and a story about mountains
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/archive/theme_mountains.html

Mountains and Mountain Ranges of Australia

Geoscience Australia : Highest Mountains
http://www.auslig.gov.au/facts/landforms/highmtns.htm

Regional Information about the Blue Mountains, New South Wales
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Blue_Mountains_NSW1.html

Regional Information about the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Flinders_RangesOutback__S1.html

Regional Information about the Grampians, Victoria
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/The_Grampians_VIC1.html

Regional Information about the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Snowy_Mountains_NSW1.html

Photos of Mountains

Mountains photos gallery. This sites has photos of the major mountains of the world
http://www.caingram.info/Mountains.htm

This site's Photo Gallery has a collection of photographs of mountains, organised by continent.
http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/photos.htm

Photographic images of the mountains of Nepal, the Scottish Highlands, and the volcanoes of Kamchatka in the far East of Russia,
http://www.adventurephotographs.com/

Photographic images of Scottish mountains
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gshaw/mountains.htm

Teaching Resources

The Mountain environment. This site includes ideas for teachers and activities for students.
http://www.4learning.co.uk/essentials/geography/units/mount_bi.shtml

© 2002-2005 Jackie Miers Magill Primary School South Australia Page last updated November, 2005

Kennedy Western University Online From November 14, 2005