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List of the most isolated major summits of North America


The following sortable table comprises the 200 most topographically isolated mountain peaks of greater North America with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

Denali is one of only three summits on Earth with more than 6000 kilometers (3728 miles) of topographic isolation. Four major summits of greater North America exceed 2000 kilometers (1243 miles), eight exceed 1000 kilometers (621.4 miles), 35 exceed 500 kilometers (310.7 miles), 107 exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), 230 exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles), and 413 exceed 50 kilometers (31.07 miles) of topographic isolation.

Of these 200 most isolated major summits of North America, 83 are located in the United States (excluding four in Hawaiʻi), 48 in Canada, 28 in México, 19 in Greenland, four in Honduras, two in Guatemala, two in Cuba, two in Haiti, two in Panamá, two in Nicaragua, and one each in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Grenada, and the British Virgin Islands. Two of these peaks lie on the Canada-United States border and one lies on the Nicaragua-Honduras border.

1. Denali in Alaska is the highest summit of the United States and North America.

2. Gunnbjørn Fjeld is the highest summit of Greenland and all of the Arctic.

3. Pico de Orizaba is the highest summit of México.

4. Mount Whitney highest summit of the Sierra Nevada and California.


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