Torngat Mountains
| Torngat Mountains | ||
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 Torngat Mountains on the Saglek Fjord |
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| Highest peak | Mount Caubvick ( Mont D'Iberville ) ( 1652 m ) | |
| location | Canada | |
| part | the Arctic Cordillera | |
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| Coordinates | 59 ° 32 ′ N , 64 ° 25 ′ W | |
| surface | 30,067 km² | |
The Torngat Mountains ( English Torngat Mountains , French Monts Torngat ) form a mountain range of the Arctic Cordillera on the northeast coast of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada .
The name of the mountains is derived from the word "Tongait". This word from the Inuit language, the Inuktitut , means “place inhabited by spirits” or “place of spirits”.
They extend over a distance of about 250 km along the provincial border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador from Saglek Fjord in the south to the largely to Nunavut belonging Killiniq Iceland at the northern tip of the peninsula between the Labrador Sea in the east and the Ungava Bay to the west . The mountain range is usually divided into three sub-chains:
- North Interior Torngats,
- South Interior Torngats and
- Coastal Torngats.
The highest peak of the mountain range is the 1652 m high Mount Caubvick . This mountain is known as Mount Caubvick in Newfoundland and Labrador , and Mont D'Iberville in Québec . The summit is entirely on the Labrador side, around ten meters from the Québec border.
The Torngat Mountains National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Parc national Kuururjuaq in Québec stretch across the central part of the mountain range. Larger rivers that drain the hill country west to Ungava Bay are Rivière Koroc , Rivière André-Grenier, and Rivière Alluviaq . The Torngat Mountains are part of the lower polar tundra ecoregion .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monts Torngat. Commission de toponymie du Quebec
- ↑ Mount Caubvick, Newfoundland. Peakbagger.com, accessed August 31, 2020 .