The Lion Mountains (also called Lioness Mountains or Peninsula Mountains, originally Portuguese: Serra Lyoa or Sierra Lyoa) are a mountain range in Sierra Leone. The range stretches 30 kilometers on the Freetown Peninsula by the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the capital Freetown. The mountains are part of the Western Area Forest Reserve, a nature reserve with a hunting ban, established in 1916. The highest point is Picket Hill at 888 meters. The Lion Mountains lies isolated on the coast of the Atlantic, and is surrounded by sea and lowlands in all directions. Around 200 kilometres inland the terrain starts to elevate up to the Guinea Highlands, the closest mountains. Being the only significant coastal mountains between Morocco and Cameroon, the Lion Mountains were a striking feature to the early European explorers.
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