The British Empire Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the most northern ranges in the worldBritish Empire Range at the Atlas of Canada and the Arctic Cordillera, surpassed only by the Challenger MountainsThe Challenger Mountains at the Atlas of Canada which lies immediately to the northwest and the United States RangeThe United States Range at the Atlas of Canada slightly further east. The highest mountain in the range is Barbeau Peak.
The range was named by Gordon Noel Humphreys during the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. Edward Shackleton, also a member of the party, claimed, in 1937, that Humphreys had done so because he was "a great imperialist".
Peaks of the range include: Peak metres feetBarbeau Peak 2,6168,583Mount Whisler 2,5008,202Mount Oxford 2,2107,250Arrowhead Mountain1,8606,102Highpointer Peak1,5855,200
References
Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1998)