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Starting in the 1890s and stretching in some places to the early 1910s, gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska. From 1879 to 1920, Alaska produced a cumulative total of over $460,000,000 ($6,691,927,500 inflation-adjusted) of mineral production. [23]
May 4, 1995. The Coal Creek Historic Mining District (Hän: Zhùr näddhä`ww juu) is a gold-mining area in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve of Alaska dating from the 1930s. It features a gold dredge and a supporting community of several dozen buildings, established by mining entrepreneur Ernest Patty. [2]
There is an unresolved dispute involving a wedge-shaped slice on the International Boundary in the Beaufort Sea, between the Canadian territory of Yukon and the U.S. state of Alaska. Canada claims the maritime boundary to be along the 141st meridian west out to a distance of 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi), following the Alaska–Yukon land border.
The Tanana River / ˈtænənɑː / (Lower Tanana: Tth'eetoo', Upper Tanana: Tth’iitu’ Niign) is a 584-mile (940 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [n 1] According to linguist and anthropologist William Bright, the name is from the Koyukon (Athabaskan) tene no, tenene, literally "trail river". [7]
Bennett Lake is a lake in the Province of British Columbia and Yukon Territory in northwestern Canada, [1] at an elevation of 656 m (2,152 ft). [4] It is just north of the border with the United States state of Alaska, near the Alaskan port of Skagway. The lake has an estimated area of about 90.68 or 96.8 km 2 (35.01 or 37.37 sq mi) (sources ...
Yukon (Canadian French: [juˈkõ]; formerly called the Yukon Territory (French: Territoire du Yukon) and referred to as the Yukon) [8] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It is the most densely populated territory in Canada, with an estimated population of 46,704 as of 2024, [3] though it has a smaller population than ...
The whaling settlement at Pauline Cove. The Yukon mainland is visible in the background. Herschel Island (French: Île d'Herschel; Inuvialuktun: Qikiqtaruk) [3] is an island in the Beaufort Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean), which lies 5 km (3.1 mi) off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part.
The longest river in Alaska and Yukon, it was one of the principal means of transportation during the 1896–1903 Klondike Gold Rush. A portion of the river in Yukon—"The Thirty Mile" section, from Lake Laberge to the Teslin River—is a national heritage river and a unit of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.