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The Brooks Range is a mountain range that stretches from west to east across northern Alaska and into Canada, a total distance of about 1100 km (700 mi). The mountains are not especially high, topping out at about 2,600 m (8,500 ft), and well north of the tree-line, so they are mostly covered by tundra. The range is mostly uninhabited, but the Dalton Highway and the Alaska Pipeline run through the Atigun Pass (1,415 m, 4,643 ft) on their way to the North Slope and the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay. Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska is the only settlement in the Brooks Range.
As one of the remotest and least-disturbed wildernesses of North America, the mountains are teeming with wildlife, including Dall sheep, grizzly bears, and caribou.
The range was named by the USGS in 1925Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 See also 1925 in aviation 1925 in film 1925 in literature 1925 in mu after Alfred Hulse Brooks , who was the 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.
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