Territory Nunavut Highest point Barbeau Peak | Elevation 2,616 m Country Canada | |
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Mountains Barbeau Peak, Mount Whisler, Arrowhead Mountain, Mount Oxford, Highpointer Peak, Mount Ayles Similar Barbeau Peak, Byam Martin Mountains, Qiajivik Mountain, Baffin Mountains, Arctic Cordillera | ||
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 and the Arctic Cordillera, surpassed only by the Challenger Mountains which lies immediately to the northwest and the United States Range slightly further east. The highest mountain in the range is Barbeau Peak.
Map of British Empire Range, Baffin, Unorganized, NU, Canada
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:
References
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