Queen Charlotte Mountains

Queen Charlotte Mountains
Range
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Part of Insular Mountains
Highest point Mount Moresby
 - elevation 1,164 m (3,819 ft)
 - coordinates

The Queen Charlotte Mountains are a mountain range comprising all mountains and small mountain ranges of Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada. It is the northernmost subrange of the Insular Mountains.[1] They are subdivided into the Queen Charlotte Ranges, which comprise a small part of southwestern Graham Island and most of Moresby Island, and the Skidegate Plateau, which runs NW-SE on central Graham Island and includes the northeastern tip of Moresby Island. To the plateau's northeast is the Queen Charlotte Lowland, which is part of the Hecate Depression and includes the Argonaut Plain.[2]

The highest mountain associated with the Queen Charlotte Mountain is Mount Moresby at 1,164 m (3,819 ft).[3]

Sub-ranges

See also

References

  1. ^ Queen Charlotte Mountains in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
  2. ^ British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Bulletin 48: Landforms of British Columbia, A Physiographic Outline, S.S. Holland 1964 (revised 1976)
  3. ^ Mount Moresby in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia