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The major festivals include the Dawson City Music Festival, Frostbite Music Festival in Whitehorse, and the Atlin Arts & Music Festival held in Atlin, though located just outside Yukon, is mostly attended by Yukoners, since 2003. The Alsek Music Festival in Haines Junction was held for 16 years [2] but has skipped 2009 and 2010.
There is no Inuit population in Yukon, although there was a population along the Arctic Ocean coast within historic times. The Inuit were decimated by disease and disappeared in the 19th century. In 1984, the Government of Canada included the Yukon North Slope within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region under the auspices of the Inuvialuit. [5]
Mount Atherton is a mountain in Canada. [1] [2] It is located in the province of Yukon, in the western part of the country, 4,100 km west of the capital Ottawa. [3]The peak of Mount Atherton [4] is 1,892 metres above sea level, or 625 metres above the surrounding terrain.
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 Yukon Plateau is a plateau (also defined as a plain) located in the Yukon Territory, comprising much of the central and southern Yukon Territory and the far northern part of British Columbia, Canada between Tagish Lake (W) and the Cassiar Mountains (E) and north of the Nakina River.
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Five Finger Rapids seen from Klondike Highway. The Five Finger Rapids, also known as the Five Fingers, are located on the Yukon River, Yukon, Canada.Four islands of composite rock divide the river into five narrow channels of which only the eastern is passable.
Mount Macdonald (2,760 metres (9,060 ft) is the highest peak in the Northwest Mackenzie Mountains of Yukon Territory, Canada. [2] Located in a very remote section of the Yukon, Mount Macdonald is the tallest peak for 187 kilometres (116 mi).