United States Range

United States Range
Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland
Highest point
Peak	Mount Eugene
Elevation	1,880 m (6,170 ft)
Coordinates	82°25′N66°47′W / 82.417°N 66.783°W / 82.417; -66.783 (Mount Eugene) [1]
Geography
United States Range Location in Nunavut
Country	Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Range coordinates	82°25′N68°0′W / 82.417°N 68.000°W / 82.417; -68.000 [2]
Parent range	Innuitian Mountains
Borders on	British Empire Range
Topo map	NTS   120F6 Barrier Glacier [2]
Geology
Orogeny	Innuitian
Rock age	Mesozoic

The United States Range is one of the northernmost mountain ranges ^[3] of the Arctic Cordillera and in the world, surpassed only by the Challenger Mountains to the northwest. ^[4] The range is located in the northeastern region of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, and is part of the Innuitian Mountains. The highest mountain in the range is Mount Eugene with an elevation of 1,880 metres (6,170 ft). 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• List of mountain ranges

References

1. "Mount Eugene". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2025-11-05.
2. "United States Range". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2025-11-05.
3. The United States Range at the Atlas of Canada ^{[ dead link ]}
4. The Challenger Mountains at the Atlas of Canada^{[ dead link ]}

Further reading

• USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, Species Conservation Assessment For Juncus stygius var. americanus Buchenau (Moor rush, bog rush) , P 12
• Dick, Lyle (2001). Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact. University of Calgary Press. pp. 12–14. ISBN   978-1552380505.

External links

• "Topographic map of the range". mapcarta.com. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
• "United States Range". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
• summitsearch Archived 2020-06-20 at the Wayback Machine