Other Mountains and Hills

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Highest peak in the Aravalli Range
Located in Sirohi district, Rajasthan.
Highest peak on the mountain is Guru Shikhar, at 1,722 metres
Ancient name of Mount Abu is “Arbudaanchal”
Only hill station in Rajasthan
Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary was established in 1960 and covers 290 km² of the mountain.
Mount Abu is home to a number of Jain temples. The Dilwara Temples are a complex of temples, carved of white marble, that were built between the 11th and 13th centuries AD. The oldest of these is the Vimal Vasahi temple, built in 1021 AD by Vimal Shah and dedicated to the first of the Jain Tirthankaras.
Home to famous Nakki Lake.
The Achalgarh fort, built in the 14th century by Rana Kumbha of Mewar, stands nearby. It encloses several Jain temples
Location of Madhuban which is the headquarters of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University.

Part of the southern Western Ghats located in southeast Kerala and southwest Tamil Nadu.
Name comes from the cardamom spice grown in much of the hill’s cool elevation, which also grows pepper and coffee.
Home to drainages of the west flowing Periyar, Mullakudy and Pamba rivers. It includes Idukki Dam and Mullaperiyar Dam.
They conjoin the Anaimalai Hills to the northwest, the Palni Hills to the northeast and the Agasthyamalai Hills to the south as far as the Ariankavu pass. The highest peak in the range is Anamudi, with a height of 2,695 metres.
The central part of the hills comprises the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary covering an area of 777 km². The 350 km² core zone of the sanctuary is the Periyar National Park and Tiger Reserve. Periyar is a major ecotourism destination.

Located in Kerala, Highest peak of western Ghats and also in south India.
Elevation 2695 meters.
Anamudi literally translates to “elephants forehead,” a reference to the resemblance of the mountain to an elephant’s head.
Highest point in India outside the Himalaya-Karakoram mountain range.

Phawngpui or the Blue Mountain of Mizoram is a highly revered peak, considered to be the abode of the Gods.
Phawngpui Peak is the highest mountain peak in Mizoram (2165 metres).
Famous for orchids and rhododendrons.

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain of the world with an elevation of 8,586 m.
Located along the India-Nepal border in the Himalayas.
Kangchenjunga is also the name of the section of the Himalayas and means “The Five Treasures of Snows”, as it contains five peaks, four of them over 8,450 m
The treasures represent the five repositories of God, which are gold, silver, gems, grain, and holy books.
Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations made by the Great Trigonometric Survey of India in 1849 came to the conclusion that Mount Everest (known as Peak XV at the time) was the highest and Kangchenjunga the third-highest

Second highest mountain in India and highest entirely within the country.
Part of the Garhwal Himalayas, and is located in the state of Uttarakhand, between the Rishiganga valley on the west and the Goriganga valley on the east.
Peak is regarded as the patron-goddess of the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya, India.It is one of the wettest places in the world. The range is part of the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion.
Two mountain ranges – the Arabella range and the Tura range, pass through the Garo Hills, forming the great Balpakram valley in between.
Largest town Tura.
Shillong also located in Garo Hills.

Khasi Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in the Indian state of Meghalaya, and is part of the Patkai range and of the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion.

Tribal region located in HImalaya.
Home to Monolith in Nartiang which is touted as one of the tallest monolith in the world.

Lushai Hills (or Mizo Hills) are part of the Patkai range in Mizoram and partially in Tripura, India.

Located on India Myanmar border,
Naga hills, reaching a height of around 3825 metres, lie on the border of India and Burma (Myanmar). These hills are part of a complex mountain system, and the parts of the mountain ranges inside the Indian state of Nagaland and the Burmese region of Sagaing are called the Naga Hills.
In British India, the major part of the hills came under the Naga Hills district.
The hills, due to their complexity and position form a barrier between the two countries. The Naga Hills are part of the Arakan Range (Rahkine Range) which to the north rise to 12,552 feet.

Palni Hills or Palani Hills are in Tamil Nadu.
They are eastward extension of the Western Ghats ranges, which run parallel to the west coast of India.
Home to one of the shrines of Lord Karthikeyan or Murugan.

Located on India’s North Eastern border with Burma.
Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, on the windward side of these hills are the world’s wettest places, having the highest annual rainfall.
Climate ranges from temperate to alpine due to altitude.

Was known as Manak Parbat in ancient times.
Also known as Churia and Margalla hills.
Southernmost and geologically youngest east-west mountain chain of the Himalayas ranging from Indus to Brahamputra.
Chiefly composed of sandstone and conglomerate rock formations, which are the solidified detritus of the great range in their rear, but often poorly consolidated.
Bounded on the south by a fault system called the Main Frontal Thrust, with steeper slopes on that side.
Sivapithecus or Ramapithecus is among many fossil finds in the Siwalik region.
The Siwalik Hills are also among the richest fossil sites for large animals anywhere in Asia.

Located in Jammu & Kashmir of India , seperates Zanskar from Ladakh.
Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya, an approximately 100-km-wide synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly metamorphosed sedimentary series.
The average height of the Zanskar Range is about 6,000 m (19,700 ft).
Its eastern part is known as Rupshu.