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The Brooks Range is a topographic maps, so it is unlikely to be correct. The range is mostly uninhabited, but the Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System run through the Atigun Pass (1,415 m, 4,643 ft) on their way to the North Slope and the Oil Field s at Prudhoe Bay . The Alaska Native villages of Anaktuvuk and Arctic Village , as well as the very small communities of Coldfoot , Wiseman , Bettles , and Chandalar Lake are the only settlements in the 700-mile Brooks Range. In the far west, near the Wulik River in the De Long Mountains is the Red Dog Mine, Alaska , largest zinc mine in the world. As one of the most remote and least-disturbed wildernesses of North America, the mountains are teeming with wildlife, including Dall Sheep , Grizzly Bear s, and Caribou . The range was named by the USGS in 1925 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; the Canadian portion is still often referred to as the British Mountains. The British Mountains are part of Ivvavik National Park . DOCUMENTED WILDERNESS TRAVERSES OF THE BROOKS RANGE
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