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Photograph:Side booms were used to lay a long section of pipe in a ditch near the Brooks Range during …
Side booms were used to lay a long section of pipe in a ditch near the Brooks Range during …
BP America/American Petroleum Institute

The highest mountain range within the Arctic Circle is the Brooks Range, the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska. The Brooks Range, named for geologist Alfred Hulse Brooks, forms the drainage divide between the waters that flow northward into the Arctic Ocean and those that flow southward into the Yukon River.

The Brooks Range extends…