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  2. Yukon River - Wikipedia

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    The Yukon River proper starts at the northern end of Marsh Lake, just south of Whitehorse. Some argue that the source of the Yukon River should really be Teslin Lake and the Teslin River, which has a larger flow when it reaches the Yukon at Hootalinqua. The upper end of the Yukon River was originally known as the Lewes River until it was ...

  3. Yukon - Wikipedia

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    The territory is named after the Yukon River, the longest river in the Yukon. The name itself is from a contraction of the words in the Gwich'in phrase chųų gąįį han, which means "white water river" and refers to "the pale colour" of glacial runoff in the Yukon River. [12] [13]

  4. Yukon River Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Yukon River Basin is located between the Yukon Territory in Canada and Alaska in the United States, with a small portion in British Columbia, Canada. This basin is made up of 13 other individual basins that drain into the Yukon River and other adjoining rivers and tributaries .

  5. Steamboats of the Yukon River - Wikipedia

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    Steamer Hannah on Yukon River, at Eagle, Alaska, circa 1900. White Pass boats which operated on the upper Yukon River generally were registered in Canada and were operated by a subsidiary known as the British Yukon Navigation Co. White Pass boats which operated on the Lower Yukon River generally were registered in the US and were operated by a ...

  6. List of rivers of Yukon - Wikipedia

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    Yukon River 1,973 miles (3,175 km) . Marsh Lake. McClintock Creek; Tagish River. Tagish Lake. Bennett Lake; Atlin Lake; Nares River. Little Atlin Lake; Partridge ...

  7. E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Yukon River Bridge, officially known as the E. L. Patton Bridge, is a girder bridge spanning the Yukon River in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States.The bridge carries both the Dalton Highway and the Alaska Pipeline in connecting Fairbanks with Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.

  8. Klondike River - Wikipedia

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    The Klondike River (Hän: Tr'ondëk) is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush and the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory.The Klondike River rises in the Ogilvie Mountains and flows into the Yukon River at Dawson City.

  9. List of communities in Yukon - Wikipedia

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    Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion. It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River. The Burian family was still ...