yukon

     

Coorinates: 63°38′N 135°46′W / 63.633, -135.767

Trivia about yukon

  • By 1897, as many as half of Seattle's police & firemen had left the city to go there
  • Relive the gold rush days at Diamond Tooth Gertie's in this Canadian territory
  • This Canadian territory's coat-of-arms features a husky dog at its top
  • This river's tributaries include the Koyukuk River in Alaska & the Klondike in Canada
  • Whitehorse in this territory is home to the "Frantic Follies", a musical revue celebrating the gold rush days
  • Don't get a toothache in this Canadian territory; there are fewer than 20 dentists in its 186,661 sq. mi.
  • Sharing a border with Alaska, it's the Canadian territory that had a record low of -81 F. in 1947
  • Although British Columbia is Canada's only province on the Pacific, this territory is farther west
  • Of Canada's 13 provinces & territories, one of the 2 that border Alaska
  • Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, lies in the St. Elias Range in the SW corner of this territory
  • It gets chilly in this Canadian territory, the last alphabetically
  • Get some color in your cheeks & ride a brown cow through the city of Whitehorse, the capital of this Canadian territory
  • Mt. Logan, Canada's highest peak, lies in the St. Elias range in this territory
  • Major tributaries of this river include the Pelly, Porcupine & Klondike
  • Big Salmon,Pelly,Klondike
  • Alaska's major river system, it flows in from that big Canadian territory next door