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Electric Peak (Sangre de Cristo Range) Elk Mountain 11,424' (Rabbit Ears Range) Elk Mountain 8,727' (Elkhead Mountains) Ellingwood Point 14,048' Elliott Mountain 12,346' Emerald Peak 13,911' Emery Peak 13,321' Emma Burr Mountain 13,544' Engelmann Peak 13,368' Engineer Mountain 13,225' Engineer Mountain 12,968' Ervin Peak 13,538' Eureka Mountain ...
Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray. This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.
[a] [6] The highest peak of the mountain range is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is also the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west.
The Cascade Range is a part of the American Cordillera, a nearly continuous chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that form the western "backbone" of North, Central, and South America. The Cascades are home to many national parks and protected areas, including North Cascades National Park , Mount Rainier National Park , Crater Lake National ...
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three main ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level . [ b ] [ c ] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation.
In Mexico, the Cordillera continues through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental, as well as the backbone mountains of the Baja California peninsula. The Cordillera carries on through the mountain ranges of Central America in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, and becomes the Andes Mountains of South America.
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. [1] It is the first mountain range encountered as one goes westbound along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North America.
Mountain Peak State Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Denali [a] (Mount McKinley) Alaska: Alaska Range: 20,310 ft 6190.5 m: 20,146 ft 6141 m: 4,629 mi 7,450 km 2 Mount Saint Elias [b] Alaska Yukon: Saint Elias Mountains: 18,009 ft 5489 m: 11,250 ft