Yukon Territory

• 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