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Yukon

[ yoo-kon ]

noun

  1. a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2,000 miles (3,220 km) long.
  2. a territory in NW Canada. 207,076 sq. mi. (536,325 sq. km). : Whitehorse.
  3. a town in central Oklahoma.


Yukon

/ ˈjuːkɒn /

noun

  1. the Yukon
    a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 31 209 (2004 est). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles) YT
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In 2015, he started a river-guide training program to advocate for preserving the Peel watershed, which stretches across over 60,000 square kilometers of the northern Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

Now the Yukon game, the tournament before, I crossed my arms at half court.

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Pandemic Panners Some gold miners flouted Canadian travel restrictions to travel to the Yukon territory, hoping to make their fortune as the value of gold skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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The frozen Yukon River, snaking its way to the Bering Sea, was visible from my window on the Cessna.

I would guess—Yukon to Anzick—perhaps at least a couple hundred years.

We wanted to take it a step further and went to the Yukon in December 2007.

Again, the experience in the Yukon gold rush is instructive.

Back in 1896, when gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon Territory, America was reeling.

The magnificent Yukon river runs through the territory, and steamers of light draft can sail on its waters for 1,500 miles.

See him as he journeys down the Yukon in a scow loaded with lumber for a mission building.

A second route was by the Chilkoot trail, which had been used for many years by miners going into the country of the Yukon.

Those who went by ocean steamer had to transfer to flat-bottomed boats to go up the Yukon River.

Mackenzie and Yukon—Men: Shirt-coat, legging-moccasins, breech-cloth, hat and hood.

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