It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon from the east at Dawson.

The largest confirmed size for this species was a bull shot at the Yukon River in September 1897 that weighed 820 kg ( 1, 800 lb ) and measured high at the shoulder.

* February 17 – Albert Johnson, The mysterious Mad Trapper of Rat River is surrounded by RCMP officers on the Eagle River and killed after a 49 day manhunt through the Yukon Territory

In Canada, the modern communities of Atlin, British Columbia ( Taku River Tlingit ), Teslin, Yukon ( Teslin Tlingit Council ), and Carcross, Yukon ( Carcross / Tagish First Nation ) have reserves and are the representative Interior Tlingit populations.

The Inland Tlingit live along the large interior lakes and the drainage of the Taku River as well as in the southern Yukon territory, and subsist in a manner similar to their Athabascan neighbors in the mixed spruce taiga.

Downtown Whitehorse, Yukon seen from the east side of the Yukon River.

This northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains marks the continental divide, with north-flowing rivers emptying into the Arctic Ocean and south-flowing rivers joining the great Yukon River.

Beginning as predominantly treeless tundra with scattered islands of black and white spruce trees, the forest becomes progressively denser as the foothills yield to the expansive flats north of the Yukon River.

* Lewes River, previous name of the upper portion of the Yukon River which runs through Yukon, Canada, and Alaska, USA.

The name Akiak means " the other side ", since this place was a crossing to the Yukon River basin during the winter for area Eskimos.

A 1906 gold discovery at the head of the Innoko River, a tributary of the Yukon River, caused another gold rush in 1907 with many of the prospectors choosing to access the site via the Kuskokwim River instead and trading posts were established at the Takotna River which required riverboat service to travel the Kuskokwim river.

The steamer New Packet hired by Al and Ed Schieffelin at the wharf of St. Michael, Alaska, in 1888 before its departure for the Yukon River.

During the gold rush of 1897, it was a major gateway to the interior via the Yukon River.

Unalakleet is located at the Norton Sound end of the Unalakleet-Kaltag Portage, an important winter travel route between Norton Sound and the Yukon River.

Broadway Avenue, in the summer during the tourist seasonThe prospectors ' journey began for many when they climbed the mountains over the White Pass above Skagway and onward across the Canadian border to Bennett Lake, or one of its neighboring lakes, where they built barges and floated down the Yukon River to the gold fields around Dawson City.

Eagle is located on the southern bank of the Yukon River, west of the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada on the Taylor Highway.

Its highest point is Mount Nirvana near the border with Yukon at an elevation of.

Its remnant was incorporated at the Yukon Territory after the part of it south of the 60th parallel was amalgamated to British Columbia.

In the dark morning hours of January 18, 2000, a fireball exploded over the city of Whitehorse in the Canadian Yukon at an altitude of about, lighting up the night like day.

* A profile at the British Columbia and Yukon Freemason's lodge

Alakanuk is located at the east entrance of Alakanuk Pass, the major southern channel of the Yukon River, from the Bering Sea.

Pilot Station is located at ( 61. 936050 ,-162. 883403 ), on the northern bank of the lower Yukon River, approximately eighty miles (' as the crow flies ') from the Bering Sea.

The Native village was originally sited across the Yukon River Northeast of its present location at a place called the point.

Anvik is located at ( 62. 655659 ,-160. 209237 ), west of the Yukon River at the mouth of the Anvik River.

Murray drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote the Journal of the Yukon, 1847 – 48, which give valuable insight into the culture of local Gwich ’ in people at the time.

During the 1950s, the United States Air Force established a base and radar station at Fort Yukon ; the town was officially incorporated in 1959.

Fort Yukon is located at ( 66. 567586 ,-145. 256327 ).

Fort Yukon is located on the north bank of the Yukon River at its junction with the Porcupine River, about northeast of Fairbanks.

It is located north of the Arctic Circle, at the confluence of the Yukon and Porcupine Rivers and in the middle of the Yukon Flats.

Stevens Village is located at ( 66. 005296 ,-149. 103032 ), in the middle of the Yukon Flats.

Every February, Eagle hosts a checkpoint for the long-distance Yukon Quest sled dog race.

In the late 1800s, Eagle became a supply and trading center for miners working the upper Yukon River and its tributaries.

Eagle Village is located west of the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada on the Taylor Highway, next to Eagle.

The Hän language ( Dawson, Han-Kutchin, Moosehide ) is a Native American endangered language spoken in only two places: Eagle, Alaska and Dawson City, Yukon.

In Alaska, Gwich ’ in is spoken in Beaver, Circle, Fort Yukon, Chalkyitsik, Birch Creek, Arctic Village, Eagle, and Venetie, Alaska.

The event became a media circus as Johnson eluded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) team sent to take him into custody, which ended after a foot chase lasting more than a month and a shootout in which Johnson was fatally wounded on the Eagle River, Yukon.

The route follows the Yukon River for much of its course and travels over four mountains: King Solomon's Dome, Eagle Summit, American Summit, and Rosebud Summit.

After climbing the 3, 420-foot ( 1, 042 m ) American Summit, the trail gradually descends to Eagle, on the banks of the Yukon River.

In winter, Eagle is buffeted by high winds and drifting snow funneled through the town by nearby Eagle Bluff, which stands above the Yukon River.

After leaving Eagle, mushers travel northwest for on the Yukon River, except for a few short portages.

The weather atop Eagle Summit is harsh as this is a convergence zone between the Yukon Flats to the north and the low ground of the Tanana Valley to the south.

The town of Eagle, Alaska, is inundated by flood water and ice floes after an ice jam formed on the Yukon River downstream.

* Hän language, an endangered Native American language spoken in Eagle, Alaska and Dawson City, Yukon.

* Dempster Highway, Yukon Highway 5-the plan was a 170 mile road to the south edge of Eagle Plains, then a fork with one road northwest and another road northeast to Fort McPherson.