Lakes
| Name | Reason for naming | Named by | Date named | Co-ordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr Lakes | Named after Ernest Carr, who discovered the Carr Lakes and erected two huts on the mountain. He build a road up the east side of the mountain from Chogoria, and was the founder of the Mountain Club of East Africa. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Lake Ellis | Named after Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, who was the first European to reach the lake in 1927. | Dutton | ||
| Gitchini Tarn (now known as Hanging Tarn) | Named after Gitchini, the personal servant of Melhuish, who accompanied him on many expeditions. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Hall Tarns | Named after F. G. Hall, the District Commissioner at Fort Hall. | Mackinder | by 1900 | |
| Harris Tarn | Named after P. Wyn Harris, who made the first ascent of Nelion and second ascent of Batian with Shipton in 1929. | Dutton | 1926-1929 | |
| Lake Höhnel | Named after Lieut. Ludwig von Höhnel, who was the cartographer on Teleki's expedition to the mountain. | Gregory | 1894 | |
| Lake Michaelson | Named after a friend of Mackinder who took an interest in his expedition in 1899. | Mackinder | by 1900 | |
| Teleki Tarns | Named after Count Samuel Teleki, who led the first expedition to penetrate the forest zone of Mount Kenya in 1887. | Gregory | by 1894 | |
| Thompson Tarns | Named after W. Bird Thompson, who was the leader of the British East African expedition to the mountain in 1891. | Gregory | ||
| Gallery Tarn | Named for its appearance. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Curling Pond | Arthur taught Melhuish to curl on this pond. | Melhuish | 1919 | |
| Hook Tarn | Named after Raymond Hook. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Simba Tarn | Porters insisted they saw a lion here in 1924. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Lake Alice | Named after the Duchess of Gloucester, who visited Kenya just after the lake was discovered. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Polishman's Tarn | Named because a Polish artist was looking for a good view of the peaks and was directed to this tarn. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Kikami | Kikami is the Kĩkũyũ word for hyrax, and there are lots of hyrax here. | Melhuish and Dutton | ||
| Hanging Tarn (used to be known as Gitchini Tarn) | Melhuish and Dutton | |||
| Oblong Tarn | ||||
| Square Tarn | ||||
| Kami Tarn | ||||
| Emerald Tarn | ||||
| Nanyuki Tarn | The tarn is named after the river that it flows into. Nanyuki means red-brown in Maasai; the colour of the river when it floods in the wet season. | |||
| Hut Tarn | ||||
| Tyndall Tarn | ||||
| Lewis Tarn | ||||
| Hidden Tarn | ||||
| Enchanted Lake | ||||
| Kech Tarn | ||||
| Lake Rutundu | ||||
| Naro Moru Tarn | ||||
| Sacred Lake |
Read more about this topic: List Of Names On Mount Kenya
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“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
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“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water,—so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
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