The Conger Range, also called the Conger Mountains, is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in Quttinirpaaq National Park

Quttinirpaaq National Park

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 on Ellesmere Island

Ellesmere Island

Ellesmere Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Lying within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, it is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, with Cape Columbia being the most northerly point of land in Canada...

, Nunavut

Nunavut

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, Canada

Canada

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, beginning about 16 km (10 mi) west of Mount Osborne

Mount Osborne

Mount Osborne is a mountain on the southwest side of Thomas Glacier, 5 nautical miles east of Mount Craddock, in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic...

. It is part of the Arctic Cordillera

Arctic Cordillera

The Arctic Cordillera is a vast, deeply dissected chain of mountain ranges extending along the northeastern flank of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from Ellesmere Island to the northeasternmost part of the Labrador Peninsula in northern Labrador and northern Quebec, Canada...

 which is a vast dissected mountain system extending from Ellesmere Island to the northernmost tip of Labrador

Labrador

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 and northeastern Quebec

Quebec

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. The Conger Range is a structural extension of the Garfield Range

Garfield Range

The Garfield Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The mountains are made of Paleozoic rocks and rise to heights between and and are separated by valleys through which flow the major rivers fed by the ice fields and glaciers...

 and continues into the highlands north of the head of Hare Fiord. The overall extent of the range is about 180 km (112 mi). 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

Mount Biederbick

Mount Biederbick is the highest mountain of the Conger Range on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It lies in Quttinirpaaq National Park.-External links: in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia...

 at 1542 m (5,059 ft).

The Conger Range was named by American

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 Polar

Polar region

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 explorer Adolphus Greely

Adolphus Greely

Adolphus Washington Greely , was an American Polar explorer, a United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.-Early military career:...

, who sighted them during a dog sleding exploration to the interior of northern Ellesmere Island in 1882.