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Yukon RiverRiver, northwestern North America. Formed by the confluence of the Lewes and Pelly rivers in southwestern Yukon Territory, Can., it is 1,980 mi (3,190 km) long. It flows northwest across the Yukon border into Alaska, then southwest across central Alaska to the Bering Sea. It is the third longest river in North America; its entire course of 1,265 mi (2,035 km) in Alaska is navigable. It attracted attention following the rich gold strikes in 1896 on one of its Canadian tributaries, the Klondike River (see Klondike gold rush). |
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| Mayo is situated on the Stewart River, one of the main tributaries of the Yukon River (Figs. But that's nothing compared to what this region experienced in 1897, after gold was discovered along the Yukon River in Canada's forbidding interior. To get there, the Jacksons snaked along the Alaskan Pipeline service road, 100 miles north of Fairbanks, in a rugged rental car and then settled in for a 25-mile chartered boat ride up the Yukon River. |
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