The Conger Range, also called the Conger Mountains, is a
mountain range in
Quttinirpaaq National Park
Quttinirpaaq National Park is located on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the second most northerly park on Earth after Northeast Greenland National Park. In Inuktitut, Quttinirpaaq me ...
on
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. ...
,
Nunavut
Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...
, Canada, beginning about west of
Mount Osborne
Mount Osborne () is a mountain (2,600 m) standing 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Mount Craddock, at the end of a side ridge running from the latter and featuring Sanchez Peak and Stolnik Peak, in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, ...
. It is part of the
Arctic Cordillera
The Arctic Cordillera is a terrestrial ecozone in northern Canada characterized by a vast, deeply dissected chain of mountain ranges extending along the northeastern flank of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from Ellesmere Island to the northeas ...
which is a vast dissected mountain system extending from Ellesmere Island to the northernmost tip of
Labrador and northeastern
Quebec. The Conger Range is a structural extension of the
Garfield Range and continues into the highlands north of the head of
Hare Fiord. The overall extent of the range is about . Most of its peaks are ice-covered, although nearly all of the southern slopes are ice-free. Many of the valleys between the peaks are filled with glacial tongues spilling out to the south from the Grand Land Ice Cap. Its highest point is
Mount Biederbick at .
The Conger Range was named by
American Polar explorer
Adolphus Greely, who sighted them during a dog sledding exploration to the interior of northern Ellesmere Island in 1882.
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
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References
Arctic Cordillera
Mountain ranges of Qikiqtaaluk Region
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