The Appalachian Mountains are a mountain range in eastern North America, extending roughly 2,050 miles from central Alabama to Newfoundland along a generally southwest-to-northeast axis. Their highest peak is 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell, part of the Black Mountains subrange within the larger Blue Ridge Mountains, and the range even reaches Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas French territory, so that it technically spans portions of three countries. It is geologically related to the Scottish Highlands, the Atlas Mountains and the Scandinavian Mountains, all originally joined as the ancient Central Pangean Mountains before plate tectonics tore them apart.
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