The Longfellow Mountains are a subrange of the

Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, (french: Appalaches), are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They ...

System, located within the

North Maine Woods The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States. The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is ...

region of northwestern Maine. They extend across the state from northern New Hampshire northeastward to the

Canadian province Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three pr ...

s of New Brunswick and Quebec. * In 1959, the Maine Legislature voted to give the various mountains and ranges in northwest Maine the collective name of the Longfellow Mountains, in honor of the Maine-born poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). This and most of Maine's mountain ranges and mountain peaks are part of the Appalachian Mountains System.

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{{Mountains of Quebec Mountain ranges of Maine Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains North Maine Woods Landforms of Aroostook County, Maine Mountains of Franklin County, Maine Mountains of Oxford County, Maine Mountains of Penobscot County, Maine Mountains of Piscataquis County, Maine Mountains of Somerset County, Maine

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