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The Newfoundland Mountains are a 20-mile (32 km) long〔Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 14-15.〕 mountain range located in southern Box Elder County, Utah. The range is the only 'island' mountain range encircled by the Great Salt Lake Desert salt flat. Other ranges protrude into the desert salt flat, the Silver Island and Dugway Ranges being the premiere examples. Other individual mountains also arise as 'island' peaks, or mountains in the salt flat desert itself, most notably Granite Mountain in the south desert, and Wildcat Mountain to its north. Granite Mountain lies at the north of the Dugway Range. The Newfoundland Mountains are crescent-shaped, mostly only 3-mi wide, and its closest neighboring landform across the salt flats, is 6-mi〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 15.〕 northeast from the northeast range terminus, the Hogup Mountains. The southern tip of the range lies on the north perimeter of the Utah Test and Training Range. Other ranges located on the perimeter of the Great Salt Lake Desert are: Pilot Range, Silver Island Range, Deep Creek Range, Fish Springs Range, Dugway Range, Cedar Mountains, Grassy Mountains, Lakeside Mountains, Hogup Mountains, and Grouse Creek Mountains; some other, much shorter series of hills/'mountains' exist on the desert's perimeter, and include a group on an alluvial fan region south of the Grouse Creek Mtns, the closest to the Newfoundland range. ==Description== The range is crescent-shaped, and almost uniformly narrow, at 3-mi〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 15.〕 wide. The northeast end of the range is a wider section, with the range's highest peak southerly (at the north section). The range is made of one ridgeline, and gets progressively lower in elevation, especially at the very south. Only one major peak is named in the range, Desert Peak. The highpoint of the range is Desert Peak, .〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 15.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newfoundland Mountains」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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