The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain range

Mountain range

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s in northern British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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. They are part of the Northern Rockies section of the Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

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 and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench

Rocky Mountain Trench

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 and on their east by the Rocky Mountain Foothills

Rocky Mountain Foothills

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. They are delimited on the north by the Liard River

Liard River

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 and on the south by the Peace Reach of the Lake Williston

Williston Lake

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 reservoir (formerly the Peace River

Peace River (Canada)

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), south of which the next major grouping of the Rockies is the Hart Ranges

Hart Ranges

The Hart Ranges are one of the main geographic subdivisions of the Canadian Rockies and are the main part of the area that is meant by the Northern Rockies, although the much larger Muskwa Ranges to the north are more deserving of that term — but also much more inaccessible and much less...

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The Muskwa Ranges cover a surface of 97,388 km² and stretch for 424 km from north to south.

Mountains and peaks

1. Ulysses Mountain- 3,024 m (9,921 ft)
2. Mount Sylvia- 2,940 m (9,646 ft)
3. Mount Lloyd George- 2,938 m (9,639 ft)
4. Great Rock Peak- 2,929 m (9,610 ft)
5. Mount Roosevelt- 2,814 m (9,232 ft)
6. Great Snow Mountain- 2,813 m (9,229 ft)
7. Mount Peck- 2,807 m (9,209 ft)
8. Churchill Peak- 2,770 m (9,088 ft)
9. Yedhe Mountain- 2,717 m (8,914 ft)
10. Gataga Peak- 2,533 m (8,310 ft)

Sub-ranges

• Akie Range
• Battle of Britain Range
• Deserters Range
• Gataga Ranges
• Rabbit Plateau
• Sentinel Range
• Stone Range
• Terminal Range
  Terminal Range
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• Tochieka Range
• Tower of London Range
  Tower of London Range
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• Truncate Range