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  2. List of mountains by elevation - Wikipedia

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    All are in the two highest mountain ranges in the world, ... Highest peak of mountain Dinara, ... Grenada – Highest point: Mount Magazine: 839: 2,753: Ozark ...

  3. List of mountain peaks by prominence - Wikipedia

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    The parent is the peak whose territory peak A resides in. The encirclement parent is found by tracing the contour below peak A's key col and picking the highest mountain in that region. This is easier to determine than the prominence parent; however, it tends to give non-intuitive results for peaks with very low cols such as Jabal Shams which ...

  4. Ozarks - Wikipedia

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    A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]

  5. List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...

  6. Boston Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Mountains is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Part of the Ozarks, the Boston Mountains are a deeply dissected plateau. The ecoregion is steeper than the adjacent Springfield Plateau to the north, and bordered on the south by the Arkansas Valley.

  7. Why Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is growing ... - AOL

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    Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet.. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...

  8. List of mountain peaks of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The 9 highest summits of Missouri with at least 100 meters of topographic prominence; Rank Mountain peak County Mountain range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Taum Sauk Mountain [1] [a] Iron County: St. Francois Mountains: 540 m 1,772 ft: 156 m 512 ft: 238 km 148.1 mi

  9. Seven Summits - Wikipedia

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    Kanchenjunga is the world's third-highest mountain; it tops out less than 100 feet (30 m) shorter than K2. The Seven Second Summits collection is considered to be a more difficult mountaineering challenge than the standard Seven Summits, even if the peaks are lower. [ 82 ]