mountain range - a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"Alaska Range - a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley Alps, the Alps - a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction Andes - a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast Apennines - a mountain range extending the length of the Italian peninsula Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians - a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States Atlas Mountains - a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert; extends from southwestern Morocco to northern Tunisia Australian Alps - a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range Black Hills - mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area Catskill Mountains, Catskills - a range of the Appalachians west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains - the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia Coast Mountains, Coast Range - a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California Dolomite Alps - an eastern range of the Alps in northeastern Italy famous for their dolomitic limestone Guadalupe Mountains - a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains massif - a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range Mesabi Range - a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887 Mount Carmel - a mountain range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast; "according to the Old Testament, Elijah defeated the priests of Baal at Mount Carmel" |