Karisoke Research Center

The Karisoke Research Center is a research institute in 's . It was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967 to study endangered mountain gorillas.
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Photo: Inisheer, CC BY 3.0.
  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: research institute
  • Also known as: “Karisoke Research Centre”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Bisoke and Bisoke Crater Lake.

Volcano
Photo: Nickolayvladim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. It straddles the border of and the , but the summit is located in Rwanda.

Photo: Joseph Lionceau, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Karisoke Research Center

Latitude
-1.4736° or 1° 28′ 25″ south
Longitude
29.4854° or 29° 29′ 8″ east
Open location code
6GCFGFGP+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 260588304
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Wiki­data ID
Q1729628
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Karisoke Research Center” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Centre d’Investigació Karisoke”
  • Chinese: “卡里索凯研究中心”
  • Czech: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Czech: “výzkumná stanice Karisoke”
  • Danish: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Dutch: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Estonian: “Karisoke uurimiskeskus”
  • Estonian: “Karisoke”
  • French: “Centre de recherche Karisoke”
  • French: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Georgian: “კარისოკეს კვლევითი ცენტრი”
  • German: “Gorillafriedhof”
  • German: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • German: “Karisoke-Forschungszentrum”
  • Greek: “Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Καρισόκι”
  • Hebrew: “מכון המחקר קריסוקה”
  • Hungarian: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Japanese: “カリソケセンター”
  • Japanese: “カリソケ研究センター”
  • Luxembourgish: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Slovenian: “Karisoke Research Center”
  • Slovenian: “Raziskovalno središče Karisoke”
  • Welsh: “Canolfan Ymchwil Karisoke”
  • “Karisoke Research Center”

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