Smallest Mountain Range
Sutter Buttes, also known as the Marysville Buttes or Histum Yani (Maidu), is often called the smallest mountain range in the world.
The Sutter Buttes are located just outside of Yuba City, California in the Sacramento Valley, itself the northern part of California Central Valley. The mountains are about 10 miles across from north to south and east to west.
Formed 1.5 million years ago by a now-extinct volcano, this circular cluster of peaks rises dramatically from the otherwise flat surrounding farmland. The highest peak, South Butte, reaches 2,117 feet (645 m) above sea level.
The largest mountain range is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which runs mostly underwater from just south of the North Pole to just North of Antartica, through the Atlantic Ocean. It length is thought to be around 7,000 miles long.
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