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The Challenger Mountains are a
mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is the most northern range in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera. The highest mountain in the range is Commonwealth Mountain . The
United States Range The United States Range is one of the northernmost mountain ranges of the Arctic Cordillera and in the world, surpassed only by the Challenger Mountains to the northwest.Quttinirpaaq National Park, the second most northerly park in the world after Northeast Greenland National Park in
Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
. Low elevation
lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
s located along Taconite Inlet are part of the Challenger Mountains and local relief exceeds .


Further reading

* United States. Hydrographic Office,
Sailing Directions for Northern Canada: The Coast of Labrador Northward of St. Lewis Sound, the Northern Coast of the Canadian Mainland, and the Canadian Archipelago
', Second Edition, 1951 P 513


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* Mountain ranges of Qikiqtaaluk Region Arctic Cordillera {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub