Mountain Ranges
Some of Europe's major mountain ranges are:
- Ural Mountains, used to separate Europe and Asia
- Caucasus Mountains, which also separate Europe and Asia, and is the namesake of the Caucasian race
- Carpathian Mountains, a major mountain range in Central and Southern Europe
- Alps, the famous mountains known for their spectacular slopes
- Apennines, which run through Italy
- Pyrenees, the natural border between France and Spain
- Cantabrian Mountains, which run across northern Spain
- Scandinavian Mountains, a mountain range which runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula, includes the Kjølen mountains
- Dinaric Alps, a mountain range in the Balkans
- Balkan mountains, a mountain range in central Balkans
- Scottish highlands ( cairngorms, a 'low level' mountain range, in northern and central Scotland.
Land area in different classes of European mountainous terrain (classification from UNEP-WCMC):
| >= 4500m | 3500- 4500m | 2500- 3500m | 1500- 2500m & slope>=2° | 1000- 1500m & slope >=5° or local elevation range >300m |
300-1000m & local elevation range >300m | Mountainous TOTAL | Europe TOTAL |
| 1 km2 | 225 km2 | 497886 km2 | 145838 km2 | 345255 km2 | 1222104 km2 | 2211308 km2 | 10180000 km2 |
| 0.00% | 0.00% | 4.89% | 1.43% | 3.39% | 12.00% | 21.72% | 100.00% |
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Europe
Famous quotes related to mountain ranges:
“What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)