The Brooks Range (Gwich'in: Gwazhał[1]) is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some 700 miles (1,100 km) from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory. Reaching a peak elevation of 8,976 feet (2,736 m) on Mount Isto, the range is believed to be approximately 126 million years old.
In the United States, these mountains are considered a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, whereas in Canada they are considered separate, as the northern border of the Rocky Mountains is considered to be the Liard River far to the south in the province of British Columbia.[2][3]
While the range is mostly uninhabited, the Dalton Highway and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System run through the Atigun Pass (1,415 m, 4,643 ft) on their way to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope. The Alaska Native villages of Anaktuvuk and Arctic Village, as well as the very small communities of Coldfoot, Wiseman, Bettles, and Chandalar, are the range's only settlements. In the far west, near the Wulik River in the De Long Mountains is the Red Dog mine, the largest zinc mine in the world.
The range was named by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1925 after Alfred Hulse Brooks, chief USGS geologist for Alaska from 1903 to 1924.
Various historical records also referred to the range as the Arctic Mountains, Hooper Mountains, Meade Mountains and Meade River Mountains. The Canadian portion of the range is officially called the British Mountains.[4] Ivvavik National Park is located in Canada's British Mountains.
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The BrooksRange (Gwich'in: Gwazhał) is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some 700 miles (1,100 km) from west to east across northern...
Columbia's Terminal Range south of the Liard River and east of the Trench, or in the northeastern foothills of the BrooksRange/British Mountains that...
Look up Brooks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brooks may refer to: Brook (small stream) Cape BrooksBrooks, Alberta Brooks, Cornwall Brooks, Powys...
Preserve is an American national park that protects portions of the BrooksRange in northern Alaska. The park is the northernmost national park in the...
Mountains – 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) Cascade Range – 1,100 km (680 mi) Annamite Range – 1,100 km (680 mi) BrooksRange – 1,100 km (680 mi) (section of the North...
rocks, trees, and ice". This is a notable issue in the Alaska's southern BrooksRange, where some FDLs measured over 100 m (110 yd) in width, 20 m (22 yd)...
from the Canadian winter ranges. If snowmelt is early, they will then move westward along the north slope of the BrooksRange into Alaska.": 3 Most Porcupine...
Mountain in the summer The BrooksRange south of the Continental Divide near Atigun Pass (6 March 2013) The BrooksRange north of the Continental Divide...
Guizhouichthyosarus tangae, Shonisaurus popularis, and an unnamed specimen from the BrooksRange of Alaska. Although older studies have suggested that shastasaurids were...
starving? — Carl McCunn, diary excerpt McCunn had lived five months on the BrooksRange in 1976. In March 1981, he hired a bush pilot to drop him off at a remote...
region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the BrooksRange along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi...
Wildlife Refuge. They live along the Coleen River, just south of the BrooksRange, and move between cabins seasonally. Striving to be self-reliant, they...
forester named Bob Marshall visited the upper Koyukuk River and the central BrooksRange on his summer vacation "in what seemed on the map to be the most unknown...
by the Alaska Range to the south and the BrooksRange to the north. It is largely wilderness. Mountains include Denali in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell...
continued to urge Brooks to return to Nashville, which he did. In 1987, Brooks and wife Sandy Mahl moved to Nashville, and Brooks began making contacts...
elevation 4,739 feet (1,444 m), is a high mountain pass across the BrooksRange in Alaska, located at the head of the Dietrich River. It is where the...
Brooks Sports, Inc., also known as Brooks Running, is an American sports equipment company that designs and markets high-performance men's and women's...
March 3, 2016. "MT BROOKS". Datasheet for NGS Station TT6450. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved March 3, 2016. "Mount Brooks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved...
Slope (ANS) is a foreland basin located on the northern edge of the BrooksRange. The Alaska North Slope is bounded on the north by the Beaufort Sea and...
The Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri), also known as the BrooksRange marmot or the Brower's marmot, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Once...
(401 sq mi) of tundra which burned in 2007 on the north slope of the BrooksRange in Alaska. Such events may both result from and contribute to global...
facing the Beaufort Sea. The BrooksRange is considered part of (or an extension of) the Rockies. South of the BrooksRange are the Mackenzie Mountains...
the Gold Range. The summit of Mount Isto is the highest point of the BrooksRange. The summit of Mount Monashee is the highest point of the Monashee Mountains...
Alaska Peninsula. The summit of Mount Isto is the highest point of the BrooksRange. Mount Isto is the northernmost ultra-prominent summit of Alaska and...
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