White Mountains (New Hampshire)


White Mountains

Montagnes Blanches is a mountain range in North America, in the northeast of the United States (states of New Hampshire and Maine), north of Boston, the highest mountain in the Appalachian Mountains. A small part is also in Canada (Quebec). Length approx. 400 km, meridian passage. Built of crystalline and sedimentary rocks (sandstone, slate, limestone), intruded with magma rocks. They rise to 1917 m. (Mount Washington).

The basic elements of the terrain are wide, leveled peaks, over which rise the frosty ridges and peaks. The climate is moderately warm, on the southeastern slope of the ocean, in the north-east - continental. In the White Mountains there are the sources of a number of rivers, among others. Merrimack. The White Mountains are mostly wooded and sparsely populated. Tourism is well developed.

The highest peaks: Authoritative control (mountain chain):

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