Blue Mountain Peak

Where is Blue Mountain Peak?

Blue Mountain Peak is part of the Blue Mountains.

You will find it in: Jamaica.

Summit: 18.047° N, 76.579° W

The story behind it

Clouds hang on this ridge almost every day, and that is where the mountains get their blue-grey look from a distance. Up near the top the trees are short and twisted, wrapped in moss, ferns and orchids that drink water straight out of the fog. Streams run cold and clear down the steep sides, and the soil is so wet that the forest drips even when it is not raining. Farmers on the lower slopes grow coffee, which likes the cool damp air. Rare creatures live here, among them a very large swallowtail butterfly that flies nowhere else in the world. Most visitors set off long before dawn from a lodge below, walk up by torchlight for three or four hours and stand on the summit as the sun rises out of the sea.

Find it on the globe

Blue Mountain Peak is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.