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The Yukon Territory is named after the Yukon River, which means "great
river" in Gwich'in. The very sparsely populated area is rich with snowmelt
lakes and snow topped mountains. The climate is arctic and sub-arctic; very dry
with long cold winters. Surprisingly to those not familiar with high latitudes,
the long sunshine hours in the short summer allow hardy cereal crops and
vegetables time to mature as well as a profusion of flowers and fruit.
Evidence of the oldest remains of human inhabitation in North America have been
found in the Yukon. A large number of apparently human-modified animal bones
were discovered in the Old Crow area in the northern Yukon that have been dated
to 25,000 - 40,000 years ago by carbon dating.
When Europeans first appeared in the Yukon in the first half of the
nineteenth century, they were definitely latecomers and much of current the
population of the territory is First Nations. An umbrella land claim agreement
representing seven thousand members of fourteen different First Nations was
signed with the Canadian federal government in 1991.
Whitehorse, the capital, is the largest city, with about two-thirds of the
population; the second largest is Dawson City which was the capital until 1952.
| Yukon Territory Quick Facts:
POPULATION: 31,000
AREA: 482,443 square kilometres
TIME ZONE: Pacific (GMT-8)
ABBREVIATION: YT
OTHER COMMON ABBREVIATIONS: Y.T., YK
CAPITAL CITY: Whitehorse
| Yukon Territory National Parks
• Ivvavik National Park of Canada
• Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada
• Vuntut National Park of Canada
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