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The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in northern British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the
Northern Rockies The Northern Rocky Mountains, usually referred to as the Northern Rockies, are a subdivision of the Canadian Rockies comprising the northern half of the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains. While their northward limit is easily defined as the ...
section of the
Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in ...
and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench and on their east by the Rocky Mountain Foothills. They are delimited on the north by the
Liard River The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows southeast through British C ...
and on the south by the Peace Reach of the
Lake Williston Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Geography The lake fills the basin of the upper Peace River, backing into the Rocky Mountain Trench which is wh ...
reservoir (formerly the Peace River), south of which the next major grouping of the Rockies is the
Hart Ranges The Hart Ranges are a major subrange of the Canadian Rockies located in northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta. The mountains constitute the southernmost portion of the Northern Rocky Mountains. The Hart Ranges were named in honour o ...
. The Muskwa Ranges cover a surface of and stretch for from north to south.


Mountains and peaks

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Mount Ulysses Mount Ulysses, is the highest mountain in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It and neighbouring peaks are part of a group of names drawing on the epic poem ''The Odyssey'', in which here Ulysses wanders fo ...
- # Mount Sylvia- #
Mount Lloyd George Mount Lloyd George is a peak in British Columbia, Canada, rising to a prominence of above Lloyd George Pass. The mountain is located NE of Haworth Lake in Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park. Its line parent is Mount Sylvia, away. It is part ...
- # Great Rock Peak- #Mount Roosevelt- # Great Snow Mountain- # Mount Peck- # Churchill Peak- # Yedhe Mountain- # Gataga Peak-


Sub-ranges

* Allied Leaders Range * Akie Range * Battle of Britain Range *
Deserters Range Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or Military base, post without permission (a Pass (military), pass, Shore leave, liberty or Leave (U.S. military), leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with u ...
* Gataga Ranges *
Italy Range Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
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Rabbit Plateau Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). ''Oryctolagus cuniculus'' includes the European rabbit specie ...
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Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. M ...
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Stone Range In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's o ...
* Terminal Range * Tochieka Range *
Tower of London Range The Tower of London Range is a sub-range of the Northern Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia, Canada, located northwest of the Tuchodi Lakes at the northwest end of the Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park to the southwest of Fort Nel ...
* Truncate Range


See also

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Ranges of the Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rockies are a segment of the North American Rocky Mountains found in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. List of ranges There is no universally accepted hierarchical division of the Canadian Rockies into subranges. ...


References

Mountain ranges of British Columbia Ranges of the Canadian Rockies Northern Interior of British Columbia Lists of mountain ranges of Canada {{BritishColumbiaInterior-geo-stub