The Mau Escarpment is a fault scarp running along the western edge of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

The top of the escarpment reaches approximately 3,000 m (10,000 ft) above sea level, and is over 1,000 m higher than the floor of the Rift Valley.

[2] The Uganda Scheme was a plan to give a portion of the East Africa Protectorate to the Jewish people as a homeland.

The offer was a response to pogroms in the Russian Empire, and it was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people.

Its high elevation gave it a temperate climate, making it suitable for European settlement.