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Aside from the fact that there is no consensus as to which particular mountain is Mount Sinai, most of the Sinai Peninsula is unoccupied desert.

There is Saint Catherine's Monastery, which is an Orthodox christian monastery, at the foot of one of the many supposed Mount Sinai's. However, there is no settlement on or in the mountain.

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Aside from the fact that there is no consensus as to which particular mountain is Mount Sinai, most of the Sinai Peninsula is unoccupied desert.

There is Saint Catherine's Monastery, which is an Orthodox christian monastery, at the foot of one of the many supposed Mount Sinai's. However, there is no settlement on or in the mountain.

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Saint Catherine town at the foot of Mount Sinai and the Saint Catherine's Monastery. 1586 m (5200 ft).

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St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Mount St. Catherine in Egypt, and the Catherine Wheel firework are named after Catherine of Alexandria. She is also the patron saint of scholars, philosophers, and preachers.

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near Saint Catherine's monastery in Sinai

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The location of Mount Sinai is as of yet undetermined. If we assume that St. Catherine's Monastery is the location of Mount Sinai, it is 95 miles (151 kilometers) as the crow flies between them. It probably takes a lot more than 90 minutes to travel between them though because of the Taba border crossing and the difficulties of traversing the Sinai roads.

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