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Home › Culture › Travel › Canada › Yukon Territory

Yukon Territory





Ivvavik

  • Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/yt/ivvavik/index_e.asp
  • Location: In the northwest corner of the territory, and bordered by the Beaufort Sea and Alaska
  • Area: 10,000 km2 (3,861 mi2)
  • Proclaimed: 1984
  • Historical:
    1. Supported several migrations of people from Alaska over thousands of years
    2. The first national park in Canada to be created as a result of an aboriginal land claim agreement
  • Features:
    1. Much of the park covered by permafrost
    2. Canada’s most northern populations of moose and Dall’s sheep
    3. Calving ground of the Porcupine caribou herds

Kluane Park and Reserve

  • Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/yt/kluane/index_e.asp
  • Location:In the southwestern corner of the territory, bordering northeastern British Columbia and the Alaskan panhandle.
  • Area: 22 000 km2 (8,494 mi2)
  • Proclaimed: 1972
  • Historical:
    1. The traditional territories of the Southern Tutchone people.
    2. Gold on Sheep and Bullion Creeks in 1903
  • Features:
    1. Mount Logan (5959 m / 19,545 ft), Canada’s highest peak.
    2. Lowell Glacier

Vuntut

  • Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/yt/vuntut/index.aspx
  • Location: In the northwestern corner of the territory, just south of Ivvavik National Park, along the Alaska border
  • Area: 4345 km2 (1,678 mi2)
  • Proclaimed: 1995
  • Historical:
    1. Numerous archaeological items of the ancient Vuntut Gwitchen people found
  • Features:
    1. Part located within a vast interior wetland plain, the Old Crow Flats




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