Himalayas
A flagship mountain record tying together altitude, ice, river headwaters, and connected upland systems.
Mountain systems, peaks, and high plateaus.
The mountain hub collects major ranges, elevated landforms, and cryosphere-linked uplands. It supports records focused on relief, elevation, glaciers, source basins, and the structure of linked highland regions.
Lead Records
Start with the atlas anchors
These pages give the mountain section a stable spine and enough depth to support future additions like volcanic arcs, plateaus, and alpine basins.
Andes
A continental-scale cordillera linking volcanic belts, altiplano basins, Pacific margins, and sharp climatic contrasts.
Alps
A compact European highland system known for classic alpine landforms, glaciation, and major watershed divides.
Appalachian Mountains
An eastern North American upland system shaped by ancient folds, long ridges, dissected plateaus, and divided drainage.
Karakoram
A severe high-mountain region where extreme relief, immense glaciers, and very high peaks dominate the landscape.
Tian Shan
A Central Asian mountain system linking high peaks, glaciers, interior basins, desert margins, and source-region runoff.
Rocky Mountains
A North American mountain system linking continental divides, intermontane basins, plateaus, and major river headwaters.
Sierra Nevada
A California range defined by tilted-block relief, granite high country, snowpack-fed rivers, and a Great Basin rain shadow.
Atlas Mountains
A North African range where uplift, Mediterranean influence, and desert-margin transitions meet along a complex mountain belt.
Great Dividing Range
An eastern Australian upland system organizing escarpments, river catchments, and long stretches of elevated terrain.
Caucasus
A high-relief mountain barrier between the Black and Caspian seas with glaciers, sharp elevation gradients, and major divides.
Ural Mountains
An ancient Eurasian range linking low-to-moderate relief, river divides, continental climates, and the boundary between major plains.
Drakensberg
A southern African escarpment and mountain region notable for basalt uplands, cliffed fronts, and plateau-edge relief.