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Mount Michelson is a prominent peak in the Romanzof Mountains, part of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. About 15 miles north of Mount Isto, it was measured in 2015 at 8,852 feet, ranking it as the fourth-highest peak in the Brooks Range. E. de K. Leffingwell named the mountain sometime between 1906 and 1914 for American scientist Albert Abraham Michelson. It remains recognized as one of the higher summits in Alaska’s far northern mountains.
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