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A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers.
   
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x Himalayas Himalayas K2 Jelep La
The Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short (English pronunciation: /hɪˈmɑːləjə/ or /ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə/; Sanskrit: हिमालय:), meaning "abode of snow", is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it...
Mount Everest Jelep La
Dhaulagiri Nathu La
Nanga Parbat Zoji Pass
Om Parvat South Col
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x Cascade Range アダムズ山(アメリカ・ワシントン州) Snoqualmie Mountain Allison Pass
The Cascade Range (or Cascades) is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades,...
Three Fingered Jack Lolo Pass
Mount Tehama Chinook Pass
Table Mountain McKenzie Pass
Mount Rainier Santiam Pass
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x Presidential Range NHpresidentials Mount Washington  
The Presidential Range is a mountain range located in the White Mountains of the state of New Hampshire, almost entirely in Coos County. The most notable summits of the range are named for prominent Americans, either public figures of the 18th and...
Mount Madison
Mount Eisenhower
Mount Monroe
Mount Pierce
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x Wind River Range The Wind River Range is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States Gannett Peak South Pass
The Wind River Range (or "Winds" for short), is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the United States. The range runs roughly NW-SE for approximately 100 miles (161 km). The Continental Divide follows the crest of the range...
Fremont Peak
Wind River Peak
x Ortler Alps L'Ortler Ortler  
The Ortler Alps (German: Ortler-Alpen; Italian: Ortles-Cevedale) are a mountain range in the central Alps of Italy. They are considered to be part of the Central Eastern Alps or the Southern Limestone Alps. The Ortler Alps are separated from the...
Monte Forcola
x San Juan Mountains San Juan Mountains and Telluride, looking northeast from Mt. Wilson Mount Sneffels Red Mountain Pass
The San Juan Mountains are a rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado. Major towns, all old...
Red Mountain Imogene Pass
Mount Wilson Dallas Divide
Sunlight Peak Wolf Creek Pass
Twilight Peak Coal Bank Pass
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x Shenandoah Mountains none High Knob on Shenandoah Mountain Elliott Knob  
Shenandoah Mountain is a mountain ridge, approximately 73 miles (117 km) long, that extends from northern Bath County, Virginia to southern Hardy County, West Virginia. Along the way, it defines the borders between Highland and Augusta Counties,...
Reddish Knob
x Cordillera de Guanacaste   Orosí Volcano  
The Guanacaste Cordillera, also called Cordillera de Guanacaste, are a range of mountains in northern Costa Rica near the border with Nicaragua. The range as forms part of the southern region of the Continental Divide, with the highest peak is the...
Miravalles Volcano
Rincón de la Vieja
Chato Volcano
x San Gabriel Mountains Telegraph Cucamonga and Ontario Peaks Mount Disappointment Cajon Pass
The San Gabriel Mountains are located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range forms a barrier between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Mojave Desert. This Transverse Range...
Cucamonga Peak Fremont Pass
Mount Lowe
Echo Mountain
Mount Wilson
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x Ochil Hills Ochil Hills (Wood Hill and Elistoun Hill) viewed from South-West of Tillicoultry Dumyat  
The Ochil Hills (pronounced /ˈoʊxəl/) (from the Celtic (specifically Old Welsh) uchel meaning 'high') is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross and Perth. The only major roads...
Myreton Hill
Cairnie Hill
Mount Hill
Norman's Law
x Ball Range none Stanley Peak Mount Ball  
The Ball Range is a mountain range on the Continental Divide between Vermilion Pass and Red Earth Pass in Kootenay National Park, Canada. The range is named after John Ball, a politician who helped secure funding for the Palliser Expedition. It...
Stanley Peak
Haiduk Peak
Beatrice Peak
Copper Mountain
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x Allegheny Mountains Spruce Knob Mount Porte Crayon  
The Allegheny Mountain Range (also spelled Alleghany and Allegany) — informally, the Alleghenies — is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada. It has a northeast-southwest orientation and runs for about...
North Mountain
Spring Gap Mountain
Mount Davis
Bald Knob
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x Cordillera Central, Costa Rica   Poás Volcano  
The Cordillera Central is a range of mountains in central Costa Rica which continues the Continental Divide east of Cordillera de Tilarán. It has four large volcanoes Poás, Barva, Irazú and Turrialba. The highest peak is Irazú at 3,432 m.
Turrialba Volcano
Irazú Volcano
Barva Volcano
x Karkonosze Aerial view over Karkonosze Sněžka-Śnieżka  
The mountain range called Karkonosze [karkɔˈnɔʂɛ] in Polish, Krkonoše [ˈkr̩konoʃɛ] (help·info) in Czech, Riesengebirge in German and Giant Mountains in English lies on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland, forming a portion of the historic...
Mały Szyszak
x Derryveagh Mountains Gleannbheatha Muckish  
The Derryveagh Mountains (Irish: Cnoic Dhoire Bheatha) are the major mountain range in County Donegal, Ireland. They make up much of the landmass of Donegal, and are the area of Ireland with the lowest population density. They separate the coastal...
Crocknalaragagh
x Sierra Nevada The Little Lakes Valley above Toms Place, California Owens Peak Tioga Pass
The Sierra Nevada (Spanish meaning "snowy saw teeth") is a mountain range located in the U.S. state of California. In a few places, it overlaps into neighboring Nevada. The range is also known informally as "the Sierra," "the High Sierra," and "the...
Mount Hopkins Sonora Pass
Mount Tom Ebbetts Pass
North Palisade Emigrant Gap
Mount Morrison Carson Pass
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x Clwydian Range Moel Arthur, one of the Clwydian Range's hill forts. Seen from Moel Llys-y-Coed Penycloddiau  
The Clwydian Range is a series of hills in north east Wales that runs from Llandegla in the south to Prestatyn in the north, with the highest point being the popular Moel Famau. The summits of these hills provide extensive views across north Wales,...
Moel Gyw
Foel Fenlli
x Santa Monica Mountains   Mount Lee Cahuenga Pass
The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. The range extends approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. The mountains form a...
Boney Peak Sepulveda Pass
Castro Peak
Cahuenga Peak
x Karakoram Pakistani truck on the Karakoram Highway. Nanga Parbat is visible in the background Ghent Kangri Bilafond La
Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan), Ladakh (India), and Xinjiang (China). It is one of the Greater Ranges of Asia, a part of the greater...
Rakaposhi Sia La
Gasherbrum II Khunjerab Pass
Baltoro Kangri Sasser Pass
Haramosh Peak Karakoram Pass
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x Cordillera de Apaneca   Santa Ana Volcano  
Cordillera de Apaneca is a volcanic mountain range in western El Salvador. It consists mainly of volcanoes. Ilamatepec volcano, one of the most active in the region, is a part of this range.
Izalco
x Coast Mountains none Mount Munday Chilkoot Pass
The Coast Mountains are a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia. They are so-named because of their proximity to the sea coast...
Mount Raleigh White Pass
Lava Fork
Mount Queen Bess
Mount Tiedemann
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x Western Tatras Western Tatras Kasprowy Wierch-Kasprov vrch  
The Western Tatras (Slovak: Západné Tatry; Polish: Tatry Zachodnie) are mountains in the Tatras, part of the Carpathian Mountains, located on the Polish-Slovak borders. The mountains border the High Tatras in the east. In Slovakia, they are...
Giewont
x Green Mountains The Green Mountains, outside of Montpelier, Vermont Mount Mansfield Granville Notch
The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont. The range extends approximately 250 miles (400 km). The most notable mountains in the range include: The Green Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains, a range that...
Mount Ellen Lincoln Gap
Killington Peak Appalachian Gap
Camel's Hump Smugglers Notch
Jay Peak Hazens Notch
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x Berwyn range Cadair Berwyn Mynydd Tarw  
The Berwyn range (Welsh: Y Berwyn or Mynydd y Berwyn) is an isolated and sparsely-populated area of moorland located in the north-east of Wales, roughly bounded by Llangollen in the north-east, Corwen in the north-west, Bala in the south-west, and...
Foel Wen
Moel Sych
Cadair Bronwen
Cadair Berwyn
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x Sawback Range   Mount Cory  
The Sawback Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies that stretches from the Bow Valley in Alberta into southeastern Banff National Park. This range includes the following mountains and peaks:
Castle Mountain
Mount Louis
The Finger
x Canadian Rockies Ringrose Peak, Lake O'Hara, British Columbia Sulphur Mountain Kicking Horse Pass
The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains range. They are the eastern part of the Canadian Cordillera, extending from the Interior Plains of Alberta to the Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia. The...
Pigeon Spire Yellowhead Pass
Serratus Mountain Wapiti Pass
Heart Mountain Howse Pass
Bugaboo Spire Crowsnest Pass
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x Bernese Alps Bernese Alps Aletschhorn  
The Bernese Alps are a group of mountain ranges in the western part of the Alps, in Switzerland. Although the name suggests that they are located in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent...
Bietschhorn
Pilatus
Silberhorn
Schilthorn
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x Cordillera Blanca Alpamayo Antofagasta de la Sierra  
The Cordillera Blanca (Spanish for "White Range") is a mountain range in the Ancash Region of Peru. It is part of the larger Andes range and includes thirty three major peaks over 5,500 metres (18,040 ft) high in an area 21 kilometres (13 mi) wide...
Alpamayo
Artesonraju
Huascarán
Antofalla
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x Rocky Mountains Kalliovuoret Mount Gould Black Bear Road
The Rocky Mountains (or Rockies) are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometres (2,980 mi) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
Maroon Bells Teton Pass
Mount Columbia Bozeman Pass
Pyramid Peak Berthoud Pass
Mount Elbert Cameron Pass
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x Sangre de Cristo Range The Sangre de Cristo Range rising above the Great Sand Dunes National Park Blanca Peak  
The Sangre de Cristo Range is a narrow mountain range of the Rocky Mountains running north and south along the east side of the Rio Grande Rift in southern Colorado in the United States. The mountains extend southeast from Poncha Pass for about 75...
Ellingwood Point
Little Bear Peak
Kit Carson Peak
Mount Lindsey
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x Tordrillo Mountains none Mount Spurr from the south Hayes Volcano  
The Tordrillo Mountains are a small mountain range in the Matanuska-Susitna and Kenai Peninsula Boroughs in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska. They lie approximately 75 miles (120 km) west-northwest of Anchorage. The range extends...
Mount Spurr
Mount Torbert
x Saint Elias Mountains none Mt. Saint Elias Mount Wood  
The Saint Elias Mountains are a subgroup of the Pacific Coast Ranges, located in southeastern Alaska in the United States, southwestern Yukon and the very far northwestern part of British Columbia in Canada. The range spans Wrangell-St. Elias...
University Peak
Mount Natazhat
Mount Miller
Mount Logan
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x Hamersley Range   Mount Meharry  
The Hamersley Ranges is a mountainous region of the Pilbara, Western Australia. The range runs from the Fortescue River in the northeast, 460 km south. The range contains Western Australia's highest point, Mount Meharry, which reaches approximately...
Mount Tom Price
x Baltoro Muztagh none Trango Towers  
The Baltoro Muztagh is a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range. It is home to K2 (8,611 m/28,251 ft), the second highest mountain in the world, and to three other eight thousand metre peaks. It is located on the north and east sides of the...
Gasherbrum IV
Skyang Kangri
x Pyrenees Pic de Bugatet Pic du Midi d'Ossau Port de Pailhères
The Pyrenees (also spelled Pyrenées) (Spanish: Pirineos; French: Pyrénées; Catalan: Pirineus; Occitan: Pirenèus; Aragonese: Perinés; Basque: Pirinioak) are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain....
Canigou Port de Balès
Collarada Col de Portet d'Aspet
Vignemale Col de Menté
Aneto Col de Peyresourde
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x Great Dividing Range Great Dividing Range bord op de Kings Highway. Mount Bogong  
The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the fourth longest in the world. The range stretches more than 3,500 km (2,175 mi) from Dauan Island off the northeastern tip of Queensland,...
Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Torbreck
Mount Stirling
Lake Mountain
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x West Coast Range   Mount Owen  
The West Coast Range (42°05′S 145°36′E / 42.083°S 145.6°E / -42.083; 145.6) of Tasmania is a group of mountains in the West Coast area of Tasmania in Australia that lies to the west of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park The range has...
Mount Tyndall
Mount Lyell
Mount Read
Mount Jukes
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x Black Hills Black-hills-sd Bear Mountain  
The Black Hills (Pahá Sápa in Lakota, Moˀȯhta-voˀhonáaeva in Cheyenne) are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, USA. Set off from the main body of the...
Harney Peak
Mingus Mountains
x Twelve Bens Twelve pins Benbaun  
The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins (Irish Na Beanna Beola) is a small mountain range of sharp-peaked quartzite ranges located northeast of Roundstone in Connemara in the west of Ireland. Dedicated fell runners can hike all twelve peaks in a single day....
x Bow Range none N face of Mount Temple Mount Whyte  
Bow Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The range is named in associated with the Bow River and was officially adopted on March 31, 1917 by the Geographic Board of Canada. It is a part of the...
Deltaform Mountain
Mount Babel
Mount Temple
Fairview Mountain
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x Lewis Range none Mount Cleveland is the highest peak in the Lewis Range Mount Gould Logan Pass
The Lewis Range is a mountain range located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Montana, U.S. and extreme southern Alberta, Canada. Formed by the Lewis Overthrust beginning 170 million years ago, an enormous slab of Precambrian rocks 3 miles (4.8 km)...
Chief Mountain Marias Pass
Mount Cleveland
Mount Saint Nicholas
Mount Wilbur
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x Garibaldi Ranges Location map of Garibaldi Ranges The Table  
The Garibaldi Ranges are the next-to-southwesternmost subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains; only the North Shore Mountains are farther south. They lie between the valley formed by the pass between the Cheakamus River and Green...
Stawamus Squaw
Mount Garibaldi
Black Tusk
Mount Price
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x Andes none The Andes between Chile and Argentina Monserrate Paso Libertadores
The Andes are the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long, 200 km (120 mi) to 700 km (430 mi) wide (widest between 18° to...
Sacabaya Cardenal Antonio Samoré Pass
Carihuairazo Huahum Pass
Huaynaputina Pino Hachado Pass
Tungurahua Carirriñe Pass
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x Misty Range none Misty Range with Mist Mountain and Mount Arethusa Mount Rae  
The Misty Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located east of the Bighorn Highway within Kananaskis Country, Canada. It is a sub-range of the High Rock Range in the Southern Continental Ranges. This range includes the following...
Mount Arethusa
Mist Mountain
Storm mountain
x North Cascades Mount Shuksan, one of the most dramatic peaks of the North Cascades Johannesburg Mountain Coquihalla Pass
The North Cascades are a section of the Cascade Range of western North America. They span the border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the US state of Washington and are officially named in Canada as the Cascade Mountains. They...
Hozomeen Mountain Allison Pass
Mount Goode
Jack Mountain
Slesse Mountain
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x Western Ghats Deccan Plateau Kalsubai Palakkad Gap
The Western Ghats (Kannada/Tulu: ಸಹ್ಯಾದ್ರಿ, Marathi/Konkani: सह्याद्री, Malayalam: സഹ്യാദ്രി / സഹ്യപര്‍വതം, Tamil: மேற்குத் தொடர்ச்சி மலை) also known as the Sahyadri Mountains, is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to...
Anamudi Naneghat
Agastyamalai Kasara ghat
Harishchandragad
Cardamom Hills
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x Siskiyou Mountains Siskiyou Mountains Mount Ashland Siskiyou Summit
The Siskiyou Mountains are a coastal mountain range in the northern Klamath Mountains in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States. They extend in an arc for approximately 100 miles (160 km) from east of Crescent City,...
Hayden Mountain Haydn Mountain Pass
x Aleutian Range Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula Mount Seguam  
The Aleutian Range is a major mountain range of southwest Alaska, extending from Chakachamna Lake (80 miles/130 km southwest of Anchorage) to Unimak Island, at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. It includes all of the mountains of the Peninsula. It is...
Mount Kanaga
Mount Gilbert
Mount Iliamna
Mount Martin
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x Jotunheimen none View from Galdhøpiggen Galdhøpiggen  
Jotunheimen (English: The Home of the Giants) is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km² in Southern Norway. Jotunheimen is a part of the long Scandinavian Mountains range. The 29 highest mountains in Norway are in Jotunheimen, including the very...
Bitihorn
Torfinnstindene
Glittertind
Nautgardstind
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x Cuillin Pinnacle ridge&gillean2 Sgurr Alasdair  
The Cuillin (Scottish Gaelic: An Cuilthionn or An Cuiltheann) are a range of rocky mountains located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The true Cuillin are also known as the Black Cuillin to distinguish them from the Red Hills across Glen Sligachan....
Sgurr nan Gillean
Inaccessible Pinnacle
Bruach na Frithe
Sgurr na Banachdich
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x Darling Scarp STS097-712-37 Mount Dale  
The Darling Scarp (previously known as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges) is a low escarpment running north-south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. It extends generally north of Bindoon, to the south of Pemberton,...
Mount Cooke
x Caha Mountains   Hungry Hill  
The Caha Mountains (An Ceachach in Irish) are a range of low sandstone mountains situated on the Beara peninsula in south-west County Cork, in the Ireland. The highest peak is Hungry Hill, 685m tall.
x Beskids Panorama of the Silesian Beskids seen from the watchtower on Barania Góra (1220m) Hoverla  
The Beskids (Polish: Beskidy, Czech: Beskydy, Slovak: Beskydy, Rusyn: Бескиды, Ukrainian: Бескиди) is a traditional name for a series of mountain ranges in the northeastern Czech Republic, northwestern Slovakia, southern Poland and in Western...
Babia Góra-Babia Hora
x Sawatch Range none View of the southern end of the Sawatch Range from the summit of Monarch Pass Mount Elbert Hagerman Pass
The Sawatch Range is a mountain range in central Colorado which includes eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Elbert, at 14,440 feet (4,401 m) elevation, the highest peak in the Rockies. The range is oriented...
Mount Massive Tennessee Pass
Mount Princeton Shrine Pass
Mount Antero Monarch Pass
Mount Belford Kebler Pass
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x Hindu Kush none Mountains of Afghanistan Noshaq Kotal-e Salang
The Hindu Kush is a mountain range stretching between north-western Pakistan and eastern and central Afghanistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in the Chitral region of the North-West Frontier Province of...
Buni Zom Dorah Pass
Tirich Mir Gumal Pass
Gul Lasht Zom Hajigak
Istor-o-Nal Karakar Pass
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x Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains Mount Olympus Grand Pass
The Olympic Mountains is a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. The mountains are not especially high - Mount Olympus is the highest at 7,962 ft (2,427 m) - but the western slopes of the Olympics rise...
Mount Constance Graywolf Pass
Mount Anderson Lost Pass
Mount Duckabush
Mount Christie
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x Slate Range   Redoubt Mountain  
The Slate Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, located in Banff National Park, Canada. The range is named after slate, the primary composition of the mountains in the area. The Lake Louise Mountain Resort is on the southern slopes of...
Mount Richardson
Fossil Mountain
Pika Peak
Ptarmigan Peak
x Virunga Mountains Nyiragongo2004 Mount Karisimbi  
The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The mountain range is a branch of the Albertine Rift, a part of the Great Rift Valley. They...
Mount Gahinga
Mount Muhabura
Mount Nyiragongo
Murara
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x Guadalupe Mountains none Guadalupe Mountains Guadalupe Peak  
The Guadalupe Mountains are a mountain range located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The range includes the highest summit in Texas, Guadalupe Peak, 8,749 ft (2,667 m), and the "signature peak" of West Texas, El Capitan, both located...
El Capitan
x Cordillera Central, Puerto Rico   Tres Picachos  
The Cordillera Central, or La Cordillera Central (The Central Mountain range), is the main mountain range in Puerto Rico. Generally speaking, the range crosses the island from west to east with an average elevation of 915m (about 3000 ft) and...
Cerro Maravilla
Cerro de Punta
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