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The Yukon River proper starts at the northern end of Marsh Lake, just south of Whitehorse. Some argue that the source of the Yukon River should really be Teslin Lake and the Teslin River, which has a larger flow when it reaches the Yukon at Hootalinqua. The upper end of the Yukon River was originally known as the Lewes River until it was ...
Winter scene in Miles Canyon, 1902. View of the basalts along the Yukon River (2017). The Miles Canyon Basalts represent a package of rocks that include various exposures of basaltic lava flows and cones that erupted and flowed across an ancient pre-glacial landscape in south-central Yukon.
Its fall, measured roughly with the barometer, from the boundary to the Yukon, amounts to 1,425 feet (434 m), and the average grade of the valley to a little over 20 feet (6.1 m) to the mile. At the international boundary, it is a rapid winding stream averaging about 20 feet (6.1 m) in width and interrupted at frequent intervals by steep bars ...
Precipitation runoff from the remote peak drains into the Tombstone River and North Klondike River which are both part of the Yukon River watershed. [2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 725 metres (2,380 feet) above the Tombstone River in less than two kilometres (1.2 mile).
The Yukon River Basin is located between the Yukon Territory in Canada and Alaska in the United States, with a small portion in British Columbia, Canada. This basin is made up of 13 other individual basins that drain into the Yukon River and other adjoining rivers and tributaries .
The candy-hued, frontier-style buildings of Dawson City, Yukon, transport visitors back to the 19th century Gold Rush era, when the settlement in the Klondike Valley had its largest population.
The Charley River can be floated from June through August. The majority of the river is rated at Class II, with some Class III and even Class IV during high water. Most of the rapids occur in the area of the bluffs where the river emerges into the main Yukon valley. [11] The Yukon River can be floated from May to September.
Yukon covers 482,443 km 2, of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world, and, among the fifty largest, the least populous. Yukon is bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its western boundary is 141° west ...