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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 ...
Map Yukon, Canada. This is a list of rivers of Yukon. Arctic Ocean watershed ... Yukon River 1,973 miles (3,175 km) Marsh Lake. McClintock Creek; Tagish River.
The Alaskan Range is part of the topography in the Yukon River Basin. The mountains range from 6,000 to 9,000 feet (1,800 to 2,700 m) in elevation. The Yukon River Basin is approximately 330,000 square miles (850,000 km 2) in area and 1,980 miles (3,190 km) in length. [1] This makes the Yukon River Basin the fourth largest basin in North America.
Map of Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve Also see resolution adjustable pdf map. No roads access Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve. The closest approaches by road are to the village of Eagle, upstream on the Yukon to the southeast of the preserve, on the Taylor Highway, and via the Steese Highway to Circle, downstream on the Yukon to the northwest of the preserve.
The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is a river delta located where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea on the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. At approximately 129,500 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi) in size, [ 1 ] it is one of the largest deltas in the world.
Teslin Lake is a large lake spanning the border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada.It is one of a group of large lakes in the region of far northwestern BC, east of the upper Alaska Panhandle, which are the southern extremity of the basin of the Yukon River, and which are known in Yukon as "the Southern Lakes" (the other major ones in the group are Atlin Lake and Tagish Lake but ...
The remote peak is situated in the Tombstone River Valley and is set within the Yukon River watershed. [2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,090 metres (3,576 feet) above the Tombstone River in less than two kilometres (1.2 mile).
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 ...