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In addition to numbered highways, Yukon has several other roads that are maintained by the territorial government. Aishihik Road (pronounced aysh-ee-ack) is an 84-mile road from the Alaska Highway at Canyon Creek (historic mile 996) to the former airfield of Aishihik at the north end of Aishihik Lake. [1]
The highway begins 40 km (25 mi) east of Dawson City, Yukon on the Klondike Highway.There are no highway or major road intersections along the highway's route. It extends 736 km (457 mi) in a north-northeasterly direction to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, passing through Tombstone Territorial Park and crossing the Ogilvie and Richardson mountain ranges.
Atlin Road: 42.4 26.3 Hwy 8 south of Jake's Corner: British Columbia border north of Atlin, BC: 6 Tagish Road: 54 34 Hwy 1 in Jake's Corner: Hwy 2 in Carcross: 3 Top of the World Highway: 105 65 Hwy 2 in Dawson City: AK-5 near Little Gold Creek: 10 Nahanni Range Road: 134 83 Hwy 4 north of Tuchitua: Northwest Territories border near Tungsten ...
Yukon's eight municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass [a] but are home to 72.2% of its population. [1] [2] [4] The remainder of the territory's land area is unorganized. Municipal governments are created by the Government of Yukon in accordance with the Municipal Act of 2001. [5]
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 ...
Haines Junction is a village in Yukon, Canada. It is at Kilometre 1,632 (historical mile 1016) of the Alaska Highway at its junction with the Haines Highway, hence the name of the community. According to the 2021 census, the population was 688. [3] However, the Yukon Bureau of Statistics lists the population count for 2022 as 1,018. [4]
The government of Tonga issues a tsunami warning and advises people in all islands of Tonga to avoid the coasts. Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Banten and Sumatra Island at 16:05 local time. The earthquake hit 52 kilometres (32 miles) of a depth of 10 kilometres. There was no immediate reports of casualties though. Health and environment
The secondary route begins about 20 km (12 mi) east of Yellowknife at Prosperous Lake. map 13 The road heads north across the lake just to the west of Cassidy Point map 14 and through Quyta Lake where some of the earliest gold samples were found in 1933. map 15 [18] From there the road continues north to Johnston Lake map 16 and then northeast ...