Brooks Range

American  

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).

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Brooks Range British  

/ brʊks /

noun

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

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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 • May 24, 2024

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 • May 21, 2024

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 • May 17, 2023

Set against the austere peaks of the Western Brooks Range, the lake, about 20 football fields in size, looked like it was boiling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2018

In the distance loomed the massive wall of the Brooks Range, the massive mountains that rimmed the North Slope on the south.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George