British_Empire_Range

British Empire Range

British Empire Range

Mountain range in Nunavut, Canada

The British Empire Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the most northern ranges in the world[1] and the Arctic Cordillera, surpassed only by the Challenger Mountains[2] which lies immediately to the northwest and the United States Range[3] slightly further east. The highest mountain in the range is Barbeau Peak.

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The range was named by Gordon Noel Humphreys during the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. Edward Shackleton, also a member of the party, claimed, in 1937, that Humphreys had done so because he was "a great imperialist".

Peaks of the range include:

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References

  1. [1]
    British Empire Range at the Atlas of Canada
  2. [2]
    The Challenger Mountains at the Atlas of Canada
  3. [3]
    The United States Range at the Atlas of Canada
  • Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1998) ISBN 0-919034-96-9
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