The Cameroon Highlands are a group of mountain ranges of west-central Africa. The Cameroon Highlands extend along the border region of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, from Mount Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea north and east towards Lake Chad. The higlands contain many volcanoes, active and extinct, part of the Cameroon Volcanic Line which extends southwest into the Gulf of Guinea to include the islands of Bioko, Sao Tome, Principe, and Annobon. For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ... Mount Cameroon (also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako) is an active volcano in Cameroon, near the Gulf of Guinea and is part of a general area of volcanic activity the Cameroon Volcanic Line, which also includes Lake Nyos, the site of the 1986 Lake Nyos tragedy. ... The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. ... Lake Chad (in French: Lac Tchad) is a large, shallow lake in Africa. ... A smoke plume from Mount Ubinas, Peru, the most historically active volcano in that nation. ... Bioko (spelled also Bioco) is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, formerly called Fernando Pó or Fernando Póo. ... Rainforest trekking is one of the islands attractions São Tomé Island is, at 854 km², the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home to 96% of the nations population. ... The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, situated in the equatorial Atlantic about 300 and 250 kilometers (200 and 150 miles), respectively, off the northwestern coast of Gabon, constitute one of Africas smallest countries. ... Annob n is an island south of S o Tom Island (S o Tom and ncipe), belonging to Equatorial Guinea. ...

The Cameroon Highlands are home to the Cameroon Highlands forests, a montane forest enclave of afromontane flora surrounded at lower elevations by the Lower Guinean forests near the coast, forest-savanna mosaic further inland, and Sudanian Savanna in the north. Afromontane is a term used to describe the plant and animal species common to the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. ...