Mackenzie Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in the E Yukon and W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada. Highest peak, Keele Peak, 9,750 feet (2,971 meters).

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Example Sentences

The putative fossils were extracted from the 890-million-year-old Little Dal reefs of northwestern Canada, which are now exposed parts of the Mackenzie Mountains.

From New York Times

Elizabeth Turner, the study’s sole author and a geologist at Laurentian University, first discovered the fossils as a graduate student in the ’90s, when working in a remote part of the rugged Mackenzie Mountains that separate the Yukon and the Northwest Territory.

From Science Magazine

An outfitter then drove us and our rented canoes five hours north to a remote floatplane base; finally, we took a 90-minute flight to the Snake’s headwaters high in the Mackenzie Mountains.

From New York Times