York Mountains are located on the
Seward Peninsula
The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska whose westernmost point is Cape Prince of Wales. The peninsula projects about into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi ...
in the
U.S. state
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of
Alaska
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. They extend inland from the
Bering Sea to the rocky cape of the same name. On the seaward sides, the streams have incised canyon-like valleys. Eastward, the York Mountains are extended by the highlands lying north of
Port Clarence
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. Their western flanks fall off rather abruptly to the
York PIateau. The general aspect of these mountains is rugged.
The York Mountains and several other highland masses form isolated groups in the northern half of the peninsula, while in the southern half of the peninsula, the
Kigluaik,
Bendeleben, and
Darby mountains form a broken range along a crescentic axis.
References
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Landforms of Nome Census Area, Alaska
Mountain ranges of Alaska
Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Landforms of the Seward Peninsula
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