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The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak.
The White Mountains are a physiographic section of the larger New England province, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian Highlands physiographic division. [2]The magma intrusions forming the White Mountains today were created 124 to 100 million years ago as the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot.
As such, no mountains in Massachusetts are recognized by the Appalachian Mountain Club in its list of Four-thousand footers — a list of New England peaks over 4,000 feet with a minimum 200 feet of topographic prominence. Thousands of named summits in Massachusetts (including mountains and hills) are recognized by the USGS.
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Relationships alternated between peace and armed skirmishes between colonists and local Native American tribes, the bloodiest of which was the Pequot War in 1637 which resulted in the Mystic massacre. [22]
The Berkshires lie within the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. [5] Similarly, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Massachusetts (Griffith et al. 1994) has defined six ecoregions within this area: Taconic Mountains, Western New England Marble Valleys, Lower Berkshire Hills, Berkshire Highlands, Vermont Piedmont, and Berkshire ...
The Northeast 111 is a peak-bagging list of 4,000-foot (1,219.2 m) mountains in the northeastern states of the United States. It includes the sixty-seven 4000-footers of New England (48 in New Hampshire, 14 in Maine and 5 in Vermont), the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, and Slide and Hunter Mountain, both in the Catskills of New York.
In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, the White Mountains region is located in the north-central portion of New Hampshire, colored orange in this map. The White Mountains Region is a tourism region designated by the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism. [1]
New England towns (7 C, 5 P) V. Geography of Vermont (18 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Geography of New England" ... White Mountains (New England)