Mount Michelson (Brooks Range)


Mount Michelson is a high peak in the Romanzof Mountains, part of the Brooks Range of northern Alaska in the United States. It is located about north of the highest peak in the range, Mount Isto. In 2015 new measurement show that Mount Michelson is the fourth highest mountain at the range, measuring at 8852 feet.
The mountain was named by E. de K. Leffingwell, between 1906 and 1914, for Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, an American scientist.