Brooks Range
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Key facts
- Peak
- Mount Isto
- Elevation
- 8,976 ft (2,736 m)
- Coordinates
- 69°12′09″N 143°48′08″W / 69.20250°N 143.80222°W / 69.20250; -143.80222
- Length
- 700 mi (1,100 km) East-west
- Width
- 150 mi (240 km) North-south
- Native name
- Gwazhal ( Gwichʼin )
- Countries
- United States Canada
- State territory
- Alaska Yukon
- Orogeny
- Laramide
- Rock age
- Cretaceous
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Encyclopedic overview
The Brooks Range (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 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brooks Range” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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