Garfield Range

Geobox | Range
name=Garfield Range


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country=Canada
region=Nunavut
parent=Arctic Cordillera
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highest_lat_d=81|highest_lat_m=48|highest_lat_s=07|highest_lat_NS=N
highest_long_d=72|highest_long_m=39|highest_long_s=40|highest_long_EW=W

The Garfield Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The mountains are made of Paleozoic rocks and rise to heights between Unit m|1067|0 and Unit m|1433|0 and are separated by valleys through which flow the major rivers fed by the ice fields and glaciers. Like most of the mountain ranges in the Arctic, it is one of the world's northernmost mountain ranges.

The Garfield Range is located at Lake Hazen which is the world's largest lake north of the Arctic Circle by volume [ [http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/nam/nam-32.html World Lakes Database: Hazen Lake] ] and acts as a barrier between the lake and the Grant Land ice cap and nunataks of the United States Range to the north. The Gilman Glacier is one of the largest glaciers draining into Lake Hazen. To the est, the mountain range extends across the Hazen Plateau while, to the west, it runs virtually to the head of Tanquary Fiord. The mountains, which tower as much as Unit m|1500|0 above Lake Hazen, typically consists of steep snow-free slopes facing south, with north-facing slopes of shallow gradients covered in snow and ice. At intervals, the range is bisected by broad valleys 5 to 8 kilometers in width that are occasionally filled by glacial tongues, such as the monumental Henrieta Nesmith Glacier that descends to within Unit km|4|0 of Lake Hazen near its northwestern end.

ee also

*List of mountain ranges
*Arctic Cordillera

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