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The Tanana River / ˈ t æ n ə n ɑː / (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".
The Swan Point Archeological Site is located in eastern central Alaska, in the Tanana River watershed. It is one of a collection of sites in the area that have yielded the oldest evidence of human habitation in the state, in addition to megafauna no longer found in Alaska, such as wapiti (elk), bison, and woolly mammoth.
Tanana River Bridge is a bridge over the Tanana River in Alaska, United States. It is 3,300 feet (1,000 m) long, making it the longest bridge in Alaska, and it was completed in August 2014. [1] It is planned as a combined road and railroad bridge, but the first years it will be a road bridge only.
A portion of the Tanana Valley, as seen from the Parks Monument overlook of the George Parks Highway east of Ester.. The Tanana Valley is a lowland region in central Alaska in the United States, on the north side of the Alaska Range, where the Tanana River emerges from the mountains.
The Nenana River (Lower Tanana: Nina No’) is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 140 miles (230 km) long, in central Alaska in the United States. [3] It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks .
Broken Mammoth, Alaska is an archeological site located in the Tanana River Valley, Alaska, in the United States.The site was occupied approximately 11,000 to 12,000 years ago (10,000 - 9,000 BC) making this one of the oldest known sites in Alaska.
Delta River. The homeland of Tanana Athabaskans is the Dfc climate type subarctic boreal forest of the Nearctic realm called Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga. Their lands are located in different two ecoregions: [46] The south of Tanana River, called Tanana-Kuskokwim Lowlands and this ecoregion forms an arch north of the Alaska Range and ...
The Chena River (/ ˈ tʃ iː n ə /; Tanana Athabascan: Ch'eno' "river of something (game)") is a 100-mile (160 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the Interior region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows generally west from the White Mountains to the Tanana River near the city of Fairbanks , which is built on both sides of the river. [ 6 ]