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The Mackenzie Mountains are a mountain range forming part of the Yukon-North Territories boundary between the Liard and Peel rivers. The Nahanni National Park Reserve is in the Mackenzie Mountains. This article is about Yukon Territory in Canada. ...
The Liard River is a river that flows through the Yukon Territory, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, and in Canada. ...
The Peel River is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada. ...
Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories of Canada, approximately 600 km west of Yellowknife, protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. ...
The Mackenzie Mountains hold about 55% of the world's known reserves of tungsten. [citation needed] The mining town of Tungsten, Northwest Territories, site of the Cantung Mine is in the Mackenzie mountains. Only two roads lead into the Mackenzie Mountains, both in the Yukon: the Nahanni Range Road leading to the townsite of Tungsten and the Canol Road leading to the Macmillan Pass. General Name, Symbol, Number tungsten, W, 74 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 6, 6, d Appearance grayish white, lustrous Atomic mass 183. ...
The townsite of Tungsten is located at the now closed Cantung Mine in the Northwest Territories. ...
Cantung Mine was a tungsten producer in the Northwest Territories, Canada from 1962 to 1986, and during 2002 and 2003. ...
The Nahanni Range Road was completed in the early 1960s from Watson Lake, Yukon along the present alignment of the Robert Campbell Highway to Cantung Junction, thence along the Highway 10 route, across the border into the Northwest Territories to the privately-owned mining town known, confusingly, as either Cantung...
The Canol (short for Canadian Oil) project was another controversial World War II project. ...
The highest mountain in this range is called Keele Peak. It is 2,972 metres (9,751 feet) high. The second highest mountain is Mount Sir James MacBrien. It is 2,762 metres (9,054 feet) high. Keele Peak, in Canadas Yukon Territory, is the tallest peak in the Mackenzie Mountains at 2972 m (9751 ft). ...
metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ...
A foot (plural: feet; symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, â² â a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...
Coordinates: 64°40′N 132°00′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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