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Yukon   /jˈukˌɑn/   Listen
Yukon

noun
1.
A North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea.  Synonym: Yukon River.
2.
A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s.  Synonym: Yukon Territory.



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"Yukon" Quotes from Famous Books



... peculiar to northern regions where the water is cold: when one is seen at the mouth of an English river it is a subject of special note. There are numbers in Hudson Bay and they have been found in the Yukon River, it is said, 700 miles from its mouth, whither they went no doubt ...
— A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs - The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 • George M. Wrong


Words linked to "Yukon" :   klondike, Mount Logan, United States of America, district, territorial dominion, Dawson, United States, the States, St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range, America, Logan, territory, Whitehorse, river, U.S.A., dominion, U.S., USA, US, Yukon River, Canada


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