The United States Range is one of the northernmost
mountain range
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s of the
Arctic Cordillera
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and in the world, surpassed only by the
Challenger Mountains to the northwest.
The Challenger Mountains
at the Atlas of Canada The range is located in the northeastern region of Ellesmere Island
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in Nunavut
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, Canada
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, and is part of the Innuitian Mountains. The highest mountain in the range is Mount Eugene with an elevation of . The British Empire Range is immediately to the west of the United States Range.
The range was named in 1861 by American explorer Isaac Israel Hayes after his ship.
See also
*List of mountain ranges
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References
Further reading
* USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, '
Species Conservation Assessment For Juncus stygius var. americanus Buchenau (Moor rush, bog rush)
'', P 12
* Lyle Dick, '
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
'', PP 12 – 14
External links
Topographic map of the range
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Arctic Cordillera
Mountain ranges of Qikiqtaaluk Region