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The 60th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe , Asia , the Pacific Ocean , North America , and the Atlantic Ocean . Although it lies approximately twice as far away from the Equator as from the North Pole , the 60th parallel is half as long as the Equator line, due to the cosine ...
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 ...
Yukon and Northwest Territories border (60th parallel) Race Rocks (Lat. 48°17′52.9″ N, also southernmost point in Western Canada) Akamina Pass (Long. 114°3′13″ W) BC-YT-AK tripoint within Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park: Manitoba: Nunavut border (60th parallel) Water: Minnesota border in Lake of the Woods. Land:
In 1898 the Yukon Territory, later renamed "Yukon" in 2003, was carved from the area surrounding the Klondike gold fields. On September 1, 1905, a portion of the North-West Territories south of the 60th parallel north became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. [23]
In 1896, gold was discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896-1899, and the first substantial white settlements were made in the near north. To deal with the increased settlement in the Klondike, the Yukon Territory was created in 1898. Today several million people live in the near north, around 15% of the Canadian total.
Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's Yukon Act, which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established "Yukon" as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage. Canada Post uses the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation ...
The Beaver River is a tributary of the Liard River, entering that stream in the area of its Grand Canyon just south of the British Columbia-Yukon border (the 60th parallel north) after running generally south-east from its origin in the extreme southeast corner of the Yukon Territory.
Yukon Territory was created from the ... the southern border is the Canada–United States border or the 49th parallel and the northern border is the 60th parallel.