Personal blog about states
Alaskan mountains, three principal mountain groups of far northwestern North America—the Brooks Range , Alaska Range, and Aleutian Range —found in the U.S. state of Alaska. The mountain ranges of Alaska give their state a rugged and beautiful terrain across its entire expanse.
Appalachian Mountains , the Rocky Mountains , and the Sierra Nevada . The Appalachian Mountains run for 1,500 miles along the east coast of the United States from northern Alabama to Maine. The highest point of the Appalachians is 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell in North Carolina.
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The drive north from Anchorage is strikingly scenic, too On the drive to Denali , you’ll see three mountain ranges: the Chugach, the Talkeetnas, and the Alaska Range .
The Rockies do not extend into the Yukon or Alaska , or into central British Columbia. Other mountain ranges continue beyond the Liard River, including the Selwyn Mountains in Yukon, the Brooks Range in Alaska , but those are not part of the Rockies , though they are part of the American Cordillera.
Myth: Arctic Alaska ( Utqiagvik (Barrow), Prudhoe Bay, Kaktovik) is the coldest part of the state. Fact: The Northern Interior (along Brooks Range ) holds the record for the lowest temperature, where the mercury fell to -79.8° F (-62° C) at Prospect Creek in 1971.
Here’s a list of the seven prominent Mountain Ranges of India: The Himalaya Range . Karakoram and Pir Panjal Range. Eastern Mountain Range or The Purvanchal Range. The Satpura and Vindhaya Range. The Aravalli Range. The Western Ghats. The Eastern Ghats.
In a nutshell, their combined study has found that the curved pattern of the Cantabrian Arc was produced by the bending of an originally straight mountain range .
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Generally, the ranges included in the Rockies stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia southward to New Mexico , a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 km). In places the system is 300 or more miles wide.
The Chilkat Range is a mountain range in Haines Borough and the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska , west of the city of Juneau. The Chilkat Range is one of the principal divisors between Haines Borough and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.