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
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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
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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
#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 ...
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# 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 ...
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# 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
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* Gataga Ranges
*Italy Range
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*Rabbit Plateau
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*Sentinel Range
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*Stone Range
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* 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
*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
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