Mount Elgon National Park is a national park 140 km North East of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area of 1279 km² and is bisected by the border of Kenya and Uganda. The Ugandan part of the park covers 1110 km² while the Kenyan part covers 169 km².[2] The Kenyan part of the park was gazetted in 1968,[3] the Ugandan part in 1992.[1]