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2 unusual facts about Mountain range


James Monger

James (Jim) W.H. Monger is an emeritus scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada and a world leader in the application of plate tectonics to the study of mountain chain formation.

Pochera Falls

Pochera Waterfalls River Godavari flowing from the neighbouring state flows down the Sahayadri Mountain range.


Aleutian Range

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.

Carlos Rafael Rodríguez

In July 1958, he joined the 26th of July Movement in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in support of its guerrilla war against Batista; it was the first such gesture of support by the Communist Party for the rebels.

Georgitsi

Georgitsi is a village in the Taygetus mountain range 28 km away from the city of Sparta in southern Greece.

Hogem Ranges

The Hogem Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in the northwest part of the Omineca Country of the North-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located between Takla Lake (W) and the Omineca River (E) and from the Nation Lakes (SE) to the Sustut River (NW).

Monti Volsini

The Monti Volsini or Vulsini are a minor mountain range in northern Lazio, Italy, near the Lake Bolsena.

Mugodzhar Hills

Mugodzhar Hills (Mugojar, Russian: Мугоджары, Мугоджарский хребет (Mugodzhar Range), Kazakh: Mughalzhar, Mugalzhar) is a series of mountain ranges in Aktobe Province (Northwestern Kazakhstan) 275 miles (440 km) long.

Puerto del Escudo

The Puerto del Escudo (Pass of the Shield) is a mountain pass at 1,011 meters elevation located in the valley of Luena, to the east of the Sierra del Escudo mountain range and on the boundary between Cantabria and Castile (province of Burgos) in Spain.

Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica.

Saint-Gotthard Massif

The Saint-Gotthard Massif (German: Gotthardmassiv) is a mountain range in the Alps in Switzerland, located at the border of four cantons: Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden.

Sierra de Gredos

The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in central Spain that is located in the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo.

Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps

The high Alpine, limestone massifs of the Hochschwab, Veitsch, Schneealpe, Rax and Schneeberg belong to it as do the limestone prealps to the north as far as the Flysch zone.


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Acacus

Tadrart Acacus, a region and mountain range in southwestern Libya

Afritz am See

It is located within the Gegend Valley surrounded by the Nock Mountains, the western part of the Gurktal Alps mountain range, on the southern shore of small Afritzer See (Lake Afritz).

Agglomeration community of Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile

The hills of Pagnol and the landscapes of Cézanne depict the hectic daily life of its inhabitants, while in the vicinity are other magnificent sites such as the Calanques or inlets from Marseille to La Ciotat through Cassis, and the Sainte-Baume mountain range.

Albera

Albera Massif, a mountain range in the north of Catalonia, between France and Spain

Austrian Silesia

The territory west of the Oder river stretching from the town of Opava up to Bílá Voda was confined by the Jeseník mountain range of the eastern Sudetes in the south, separating it from Moravia, and the Opava river in the north.

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe is a quarter of the city of Friedrichsdorf at the foothills of the Taunus mountain range, approx.

Bystrytsia River

Both of the branches, typical mountain rivers, of the Bystrytsia river take their sourch in the Gorgany Mountains of the Carpathian mountain range in the Ukrainian province of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Cantino planisphere

Other illustrations include a lion-shaped mountain representing the Sierra Leone mountain range, the Alexandria lighthouse (laid horizontal), the mythical Mountains of the Moon (legendary source of the Nile River) in central Africa, and either the Table Mountain or Drakensberg range in South Africa.

Caribou Mountains

Cariboo Mountains a mountain range of the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia

Changbai

Changbai Mountains, mountain range on the border between China and North Korea

Charan, Iran

Charan is situated among a cluster of villages located in Alborz mountain range north of Tehran in Iran.

Desert Hills

Desert Mountains, a mountain range in Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada

Drakensberg Boys' Choir School

Drakensberg Boys Choir School is a school near the small town of Winterton, in the heart of the Drakensberg mountain range in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Elbruz

Elbruz, garbling of Elburz, also called Alborz, primarily northern-Iranian mountain range neighboring Armenia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

Erckmann-Chatrian

They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode, applying to the Vosges mountain range and the Alsace-Lorraine region techniques inspired by story-tellers from the Black Forest.

Ernici

The Monti Ernici, a mountain range forming part of the Italian Apennines

György Almásy

They journeyed through the region of the river Ili, the eastern areas of the Issyk Kul, and the unexplored, third mountain range of the Tien-San.

Hacha Grande

The mountain makes up part of the highest mountain range on the island, Los Ajaches, which is designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Commission Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

Karak, Pahang

With its location at the foothills of Malaysia’s main mountain range, the Titiwangsa Mountain Range, this town is an important water catchment area not just for Pahang but for the Klang Valley as well.

Karlova Ves

The original village lied on the western slopes of the Bratislava Foothills, the southernmost part of the Devín Carpathians mountain range, in the valley of the Karloveský stream, on both of its sides.

Khingan

Lesser Khingan, mountain range in the northeastern section of Heilongjiang, China

Krasnoarmeysky District, Primorsky Krai

The Sikhote-Alin mountain range is a natural barrier which blocks the penetration of the monsoonal winds from the south and the east, forming a specific microclimate of the district.

Latobius

Votive inscriptions for Mars Latobius are typically found on mountain tops (e.g., on the highest peak of the Koralpe mountain range, between the Lavant and Mur valleys) and on passes in former Noricum.

Mallnitz

It is situated in a valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range, west of the Ankogel Group, which stretches southwards down to neighbouring Obervellach.

Mecsek

The highest peak in the mountain range is Zengő (literally translates to 'resonant'), which has an elevation of 682 metres (2238 feet).

Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula

The Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula are not found in a single mountain range, but instead consist of a number of unnamed mountain ranges found on the Iveragh Peninsula of County Kerry, in Ireland.

Nguru Mountains

The Nguru Mountains form the beginning of the rim mountain range which continues through Ussagara and Uhehe and extends to the Nyassa.

Offensee

Offensee is a lake located at the western end of the Totes Gebirge mountain range in Upper Austria's part of the Salzkammergut.

Pennino

The Pennines or "Pennino Hills", a low-rising mountain range in northern England and southern Scotland

Piana, Arcadia

Piana is built in sides of mountain range of Mainalo in altitude of 1090 metres and with Eastern report.

Porkeri Mountains

The Porkeri Mountains are a mountain range near the village of Porkeri in the Faroe Islands near the Porkeri Mountains,just north of Vágur on Suðuroy's east coast.

Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales consists of three river valleys in the Pyrenees mountain range –from north to south, those of the Agly, Têt and Tech– and the eastern Plain of Roussillon into which they converge.

Qianshan

Qian Mountains (千山; Qiānshān), mountain range in the Northeast

Sharri

Šar Mountains - mountain range in Albania and the Republic of Macedonia.

Siege of Fredriksten

The bitter cold killed the guide on the very first day, and the army scatted blindly in the mountains (Sylan mountain range).

Sierra de Santa Cruz

Sierra de Santa Cruz, a mountain range in the Iberian System, Aragon, Spain

Silvermine

Silvermines, a town in that mountain range, and also a defunct mining site in the area

Smith Mountain

Smith Mountain is a Mountain range in Northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, it is the mountain for which Smith Mountain Lake gets its name.

Smokies

Great Smoky Mountains - a major mountain range in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains, USA

Suspension bridges road

In the Province of Cordoba, the mountain range of Sierras Grandes acted as a barrier dividing the territory and hampering communications between populations located east and west of the summits of Achala.

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

Geographically, references are made to the country's equatorial climate, its northern coastline on the Caribbean, western coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the mountain range of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Margarita, which is similar to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Txindoki

It stands out as the westernmost mountainous tip of the Aralar mountain range, with an easily recognized image that has become a symbol for all the Goierri valley.

Vellarimala

Vellarimala is a mountain range in Thiruvambady Panchayat on Kozhikode district of Kerala, India.

Vilcanota

Cordillera Vilcanota, a mountain range in the Cusco Region, Peru, including a dozen mountains above 6000 meters

Villgraten Mountains

Together with the Ankogel Group, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group and the Rieserferner Group, the Villgraten Mountains are part of the major mountain range, the High Tauern.

Wiesen

Wiesensee, an artificial lake in the Westerwald mountain range of Germany

Winston Wong

The Expedition will travel 3,600 miles across Antarctica, from Patriot Hills on the west coast to the South Pole, heading north from there through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range, down the Leverett Glacier and across the Ross Ice Shelf to the coast at McMurdo.

Zangezur

Zangezur Mountains, mountain range that defines the border between Armenia and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan)

Zangezur National Park, situated in the mountain range of the same name in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan