Brooks Range

noun

1. a mountain range in N Alaska, forming a watershed between the Yukon River and the Arctic Ocean: highest peak, 9,239 feet (2,815 meters).

Brooks Range

/ brʊks /

noun

1. a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)

Example Sentences

According to a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, iron and other toxic metals are leaching into the water supply for 75 streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range.

From Salon

Geological Survey, the University of California, Davis, and other institutions have documented and sampled some of the impaired waters, pinpointing 75 locations across a Texas-sized area of northern Alaska's Brooks Range.

From Science Daily

The great gray owl has long been thought of as a sentinel of the Alaska wilderness, keeping watch over snow-laden forests as far north as the Brooks Range, well away from human populations.

From Science Daily

And in the last 18 months of his life, he ended up on the north side of the Brooks Range, where he likely died of starvation.

From New York Times

This dates to 1958, when British Petroleum surveyed Alaska’s Brooks Range looking for oil reserves to use as a hedge against its holdings in potentially unstable areas of the Middle East.

From Scientific American