Arctic Cordillera

North America, Canada: (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec)

Region(s):	North America, Canada: (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec)
Parent Range:
Max. Elevation:	2 616 m / 8 583 ft
Geology:	Tectonic
Average Length:	1 863 miles / 3 000 km
Average Width:	1 000 miles / 621 km

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Range Name(s):	Arctic Cordillera
Max. Elevation:	2 616 m / 8 583 ft
Region(s):	North America
Location:	North America, Canada: (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec)
Activity type:	Please update
Starting Point:	75.02837318580329 -82.6171875
Parent Range:	Please update

Geology:	Tectonic
Snow line:	Please update
Average Length:	1 863 miles / 3 000 km
Average Width:	1 000 miles / 621 km
Nearst Airport(s):	Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)
Convenience Center(s):	Iqaluit
National Park(s):	National Park Auyuittuk, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada

Location

North America, Canada: (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec)

75°1'42.143''N -82°-37'-1.875''W

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Of all the archipelago's Baffin Island is the most visited one - it is one of largest islands on the planet. It meets all the expectations of typical Arctic: polar day and night, the northern lights, ice shell, icebergs, polar bears, caribou, walrus. People come here to explore the nature of the North, meet the life of a small local Inuit population, for ski-touring and mountaineering, which is known here for the complicity of large walls. The area is very poorly explored by climbers and has great potential for interesting and difficult first ascents. Most of the walls located on the peninsula of Cumberland, in the National Park Auyuittuq, and on the coast in the vicinity of the River Clyde, where a large number of vertical walls rising up from the sea.
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Arctic Cordillera - a broad, deep excision mountain system that consists of several ranges. Cordillera mountain system located on Arctic islands in different regions: Bathurst, Cornwall, Amund Ringnes, Ellef Ringnes, Ellesmere Island , Baffin Island, Bylot Labrador. The highest part of the system is one on the Ellesmere Island (up to 2616), while the most popular part of the Arctic Cordillera is on Baffin Island are much lower - it reaches only 2143 m.
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Mountain system stretches along the north-eastern edge of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from Ellesmere Island across Baffin Island to the northern part of the Labrador Peninsula. System’s mountains also covers most of the eastern coast of Nunavut (part of the North American continent). To the east, the Arctic Cordillera limited by Baffin sea, Davis Strait and Labrador Sea, and the northern part of the ridge bordering the Arctic Ocean.
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Arctic Cordillera - is one of three mountain systems in Canada (the other two are the northern part of the Cordillera in Western Canada and a part of the Appalachians to the Gaspé Peninsula and Atlantic Canada).

The first climbing expedition to Arctic Cordillera were organized in the 1950s. In ... Read more
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- http://wiki.risk.ru/index.php/Баффинова_Земля
- Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Cordillera

Last update: Slava Shevtsov (05 Jul 2018) • History

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