The Little Rocky Mountains, also known as the Little Rockies, are a group of
butte
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In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a French word mea ...
s, roughly 765 km
2 in area, located towards the southern end of the
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in
Blaine County and
Phillips County in north-central
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Colu ...
. Their highest summit is Antoine Butte (~5720 ft (1743 m)).
The nearest town is
Dodson, Montana.
See also
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List of mountain ranges in Montana
Notes
External links
Geology and Physiography of the Little Rocky Mountains, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Landforms of Blaine County, Montana
Landforms of Phillips County, Montana
Mountain ranges of Montana
Ranges of the Rocky Mountains
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