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TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)
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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Also IIRC a lot of the pacific coast mountains around the world are from the same volcanic activities caused by the Ring of Fire