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A map of Yukon. Yukon (population as of the 2021 census 40,232 [1]) is in the northwestern corner of Canada and is bordered by Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. The sparsely populated territory abounds with natural scenery, snowmelt lakes and perennial white-capped mountains, including many of Canada's highest mountains.
Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories by a federal statute in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The current governing legislation is a new statute passed by the federal Parliament in 2002, the Yukon Act. [9] That act established Yukon as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage.
Canada's 15 terrestrial ecozones are further subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces, 194 ecoregions, and 1,027 ecodistricts. [13]Canada is characterized by a wide range of both meteorologic and geological regions that are divided into fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, [14] such as the forests of British Columbia and Central Canada, the prairies of Western Canada, the tundra of Northern ...
This is a list of protected areas of Yukon. The Yukon , formerly called Yukon Territory and sometimes referred to as just Yukon [ 1 ] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories . It also is the least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 35,874 people as of the 2016 Census.
Ivvavik National Park (/ ˈ iː v ə v ɪ k / EE-və-vik) [2] is a national park of Canada located in the Yukon.Initially named "Northern Yukon National Park," the park was renamed Ivvavik in 1992 for the Inuvialuktun word meaning "nursery" or "birthplace," [3] in reference to the importance of the area as a calving ground for Porcupine caribou.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada.There are approximately 200 mammal species in Canada. [1] Its large territorial size consist of fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, ranging from oceanic coasts, to mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. [2]
This list of birds of the Yukon includes species documented in the Canadian territory of the Yukon. Unless otherwise noted, the list is that of the Yukon Bird Club (YBC). As of 2021, there were 348 species included in that list. Of them, 58 are casual and 60 are accidental; both terms are defined below.
The Canadian Arctic tundra is a biogeographic designation for Northern Canada's terrain generally lying north of the tree line or boreal forest, [2] [3] [4] that corresponds with the Scandinavian Alpine tundra to the east and the Siberian Arctic tundra to the west inside the circumpolar tundra belt of the Northern Hemisphere.