The Lincoln Mountains is a

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in southeastern

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, located on the Alaskan side of the

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between the Salmon River and the Soule River, near the community of Hyder. It has an area of 235 km² and is a subrange of the

Boundary Ranges The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains. They begin at the Nass River, near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle in the Canadian p ...

which in turn form part of the

Coast Mountains The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...

.Lincoln Mountains
in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia

References

Boundary Ranges Landforms of Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska {{PrinceofWalesHyderAK-geo-stub

See also

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