The northern portion of Cape Breton Island is dominated by the Cape Breton Highlands, commonly shortened to simply the " Highlands ", which are an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain.

It is the smallest of the four islands and has a central mountain chain reaching 860 meters at its highest.

Orographically the backbone of the country is the mountain chain which forms the eastern escarpment of the continental plateau.

The Ocean Ridge, the world's longest mountain range ( chain ), by USGS.

The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.

The Pegu Range is a relatively low mountain chain between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River in central Burma.

The average height of this mountain chain is ; the highest point of the chain,, is within Brazilian territory.

A lesser mountain chain, the Serranía de Mbaracayú, also rises at the point where the Cordillera de Amambay and Cordillera de Mbaracayú meet.

The Serranía de Mbaracayú extends east and then south to parallel the Río Paraná ; the mountain chain has an average height of.

Zamboanga Peninsula has a very mountainous terrain this chain of mountain ranges is called the Zamboanga Cordilleras.

The glaciers are confined to the northern slopes of the central Pyrenees, and do not descend, like those of the Alps, far down into the valleys, but have their greatest lengths along the direction of the mountain chain.

The greatest concentrations of FARC guerrilla forces are in the south-eastern regions of Colombia ’ s of jungle, and in the plains at the base of the Andean mountain chain.

This chain of lower mountain ranges is separated from the Sistema Central to the north by the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula: the Tagus River.

* Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland

In the 1550s, after the Tsardom of Russia had defeated the Khanate of Kazan and proceeded to gradually annex the lands of the Bashkirs, the Russians finally reached the southern part of the mountain chain.

The entire coast of Lazio, on which the mountain and the marsh are located, was a chain of barrier islands that was formed on a horst, made part of the mainland by sedimentation of the intervening graben.

Such erosional material of a growing mountain chain is called molasse and has either a shallow marine or a continental facies.

The Tell Atlas is a mountain chain over in length, belonging to the Atlas mountain ranges and stretching from Morocco, through Algeria to Tunisia.

The Jura mountain chain traverses the canton.

* The Yandang Shan mountain chain, near the town of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China

* the Spine, the mountain chain which follows the west coast in the Inheritance cycle.

The Dauphiné Alps () are a group of mountain ranges in southeastern France, west of the main chain of the Alps.

Unlike many other mountain ranges, the higher peaks are often located outside the main chain and found themselves between the northern valleys ( Grand Combin, Weisshorn, Mischabel, Weissmies ).

These include hiking, mountain climbing, treetop cable swings ( arborismo ), horseback riding, ATV riding, and motorbike riding.

It is found south of the Rothaargebirge, southwest of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland ( another low mountain range ), north of the Taunus and east of the Middle Rhine and stretches more or less southwards from Siegen and Burbach, southwestwards from Haiger, northwestwards from Weilburg, northwards from Limburg an der Lahn, northeastwards from Koblenz, eastwards from Linz am Rhein, southeastwards from Wissen and southwards from Betzdorf.

In 1990, the mountain road opened between Sirdal via the Suleskard mountain pass and eastwards over to neighboring Brokke in Setesdal.

Medieval Muslim geographers spent a great amount of time debating the exact boundaries between Hejaz and Nejd in particular, but generally set the western boundaries of Nejd to be wherever the western mountain ranges and lava beds began to slope eastwards, and set the eastern boundaries of Nejd at the narrow strip of red sand dunes known as the Ad-Dahna Desert, some east of modern-day Riyadh.

However, the traditional Roman road ( also called the Route of Napoleon ) followed a route different from that of the modern one, not crossing at Ibaineta ( the traditional location ) but heading eastwards and crossing instead the Lepoeder and Bentartea passes, not far from the mountain of Urkuilu, at Aezkoa.

Originally wooded farm land, in A. D. 535 two monks came eastwards from the small religious settlement of Llandaff, aiming to establish new settlements, or " llans ", in the land below Caerphilly mountain.

Due to the extreme grade, the first train to cross over the mountain wrecked on its return journey eastwards the following day.

The former Usk Valley glacier divided to north and south of it as it travelled eastwards, though the mountain itself is largely free from glacial till.

Phuthi is spoken in dozens ( perhaps many dozens ) of scattered communities in the border areas between where the far northern Eastern Cape meets Lesotho: from Herschel northwards and eastwards, and in the Matatiele area of the northeastern Transkei ; and throughout southern Lesotho, from Quthing in the southwest, through regions south and east of Mount Moorosi, to mountain villages west and north of Qacha ( Qacha's Nek ).

It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic ground, for example in the Portlethen Moss, Scotland and mountain pasture, throughout Europe ( with the exception of some Mediterranean areas ) and eastwards across much of Asia ; it has also been introduced to North America.

Salix myrtilloides ( swamp willow ) is a willow native to boglands in cool temperate to subarctic regions of northeastern Europe and northern Asia from central Norway and Poland eastwards to the Pacific Ocean coasts, with isolated populations further south in mountain bogs in the Alps, Carpathians and Sikhote-Alin mountains.

It then follows the main ridge of the Pyrenees eastwards up to Andorra, where it again turns to the north through France along the catchment areas of Garonne ( with the summit of the Canal du Midi at Seuil de Naurouze ), Loire and Seine in the west and that of the Rhone in the east, marked by the Cévennes mountain range between the sources of the Allier and Ardèche tributaries.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

Bimberi Peak being the highest mountain in the ACT approximately south west of Canberra.

Newer districts of the city lie to the south and east of the outcrop, as well as higher up the mountain, and in the valley on both sides of the Aar.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

* Anchor Cone, a mountain in western British Columbia, Canada on the south side of Lowe Inlet, Grenville Channel

Stretching across Cameroon from the western mountain area, the Adamaoua forms a barrier between the north and south.

From north to south, the mountain ranges and valleys are:

It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west.

The city is located at, in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita in the south central part of the country Guatemala.

The island has five major mountain ranges: The Central Range, known in the Dominican Republic as the Cordillera Central, spans the central part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic into northwestern Haiti, where it is known as the Massif du Nord.

There is an ancient legend held in Mexican folklore that a cave in a mountain five miles south of Ojinaga, Mexico is possessed by devilish creatures who came from inside the earth.

Subsequently, Iranian forces invaded Iraq by crossing the Shatt al Arab in the south and by capturing some mountain passes in the north.

From there, he journeyed south to Afghanistan, then crossed into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush.

* 2005 – The nuclear sub collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam.

Ladakh is a region in the east, between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

Emerging from a base south of Homs in Syria, the eastern mountain range, or Anti-Lebanon ( Lubnan ash Sharqi ), is almost equal in length and height to the Lebanon Mountains.

The vicuña lives in herds on the bleak and elevated parts of the mountain range bordering the region of perpetual snow, amidst rocks and precipices, occurring in various suitable localities throughout Peru, in the southern part of Ecuador, and as far south as the middle of Bolivia.

Two roads connect the adjoining prefectures of Messenia and Laconia: one is a tortuous mountain pass through Taygetus and the other bypasses the mountain via the Mani district to the south.

To the south of the Tiber, other mountain groups form part of the Preapennines: the Alban Hills, also of volcanic origin, and the calcareous Lepini, Ausoni and Aurunci Mountains.

Eight thousand years ago, south of the great mountain ranges in what is now the Sahara Desert, a vast savanna supported Neolithic hunters and herders whose culture flourished until the region began to desiccate as a result of climatic changes after 4000 BC.

These include the Tasman and Murchison Glaciers to the east of the mountain and the smaller Hooker and Mueller Glaciers to its south.

" south of Yathrib was the mountain city Ta ’ if, north-west of which lay Mecca.

* Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a historic mountain railway linking Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, south India

For example, the mountain ranges along the western border with Afghanistan are sometimes described separately from the Balochistan Plateau, and on the eastern border with India, south of the Sutlej River, the Thar Desert may be considered separately from the Indus Plain.