Muskwa Ranges
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The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain range
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

s in northern British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada
Canada
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. They are part of the Northern Rockies section of the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...

 and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench
Rocky Mountain Trench
The Rocky Mountain Trench, or the Trench or The Valley of a Thousand Peaks, is a large valley in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains. It is both visually and cartographically a striking physiographic feature extending approximately from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the Liard River, just south...

 and on their east by the Rocky Mountain Foothills
Rocky Mountain Foothills
The Rocky Mountain Foothills are an upland area flanking the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, extending south from the Liard River into Alberta. Bordering the Interior Plains system, they are part of the Rocky Mountain System or Eastern System of the Western Cordillera of North America....

. They are delimited on the north by the Liard River
Liard River
The Liard River 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 Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving northeast back...

 and on the south by the Peace Reach of the Lake Williston
Williston Lake
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:...

 reservoir (formerly the Peace River
Peace River (Canada)
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), south of which the next major grouping of the Rockies is the Hart Ranges
Hart Ranges
The Hart Ranges are one of the main geographic subdivisions of the Canadian Rockies and are the main part of the area that is meant by the Northern Rockies, although the much larger Muskwa Ranges to the north are more deserving of that term — but also much more inaccessible and much less...

.

The Muskwa Ranges cover a surface of 97,388 km² and stretch for 424 km from north to south.

Mountains and peaks

  1. Ulysses Mountain- 3,024 m (9,921 ft)
  2. Mount Sylvia- 2,940 m (9,646 ft)
  3. Mount Lloyd George- 2,938 m (9,639 ft)
  4. Great Rock Peak- 2,929 m (9,610 ft)
  5. Mount Roosevelt- 2,814 m (9,232 ft)
  6. Great Snow Mountain- 2,813 m (9,229 ft)
  7. Mount Peck- 2,807 m (9,209 ft)
  8. Churchill Peak- 2,770 m (9,088 ft)
  9. Yedhe Mountain- 2,717 m (8,914 ft)
  10. Gataga Peak- 2,533 m (8,310 ft)

Sub-ranges

  • Akie Range
  • Battle of Britain Range
  • Deserters Range
  • Gataga Ranges
  • Rabbit Plateau
  • Sentinel Range
  • Stone Range
  • Terminal Range
    Terminal Range
    The Terminal Range is the northernmost mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, so-named for its position at the northern terminus of the Rockies. Lying west of Muncho Lake and the Trout River, its northern permeter is the Liard River...

  • Tochieka Range
  • Tower of London 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 Nelson....

  • Truncate Range
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