Humboldt Mountains (Asia)

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The Humboldt Mountains are mountains in Central Asia that are covered with everlasting snow . It is located on the northern border of Tibet and forms the northwestern end of the Nan-shan Mountains . The largest mountains in the mountains reach heights of up to 6,000 meters.

The mountains were named by the Russian explorer Nikolai Prschewalski after the well-known German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt .

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