#Yukon River

[rabbitcruiser]

Schwatka Lake, Whitehorse

Schwatka Lake is a reservoir created by the damming of the Yukon River in Whitehorse, Yukon, completed in 1958. The dam provides electrical power generation and is operated by the Yukon Energy Corporation. The White Horse Rapids, which gave the city its name, are now under the lake. The lake was named after Frederick Schwatka, a US Army Lieutenant who was first to explore the total length of the Yukon River.

A fish ladder has been constructed around the hydroelectric dam to allow the passage of Chinook salmon to their spawning grounds upstream of Whitehorse. The Chinook salmon that pass the dam have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometres to the mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea.

Whitehorse Water Aerodrome, a float plane base, is located on the lake. The lake has been the city's water supply for some years, but the city is now converting to relying entirely on aquifers, partly due to the threat of pollution from fuel spills and other activities by people in the watershed of the lake. Previously, there had been talk of moving the float plane base or the water supply to Fish Lake, which is impractically located to the west over a winding, steep road.

Source: Wikipedia

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Whitehorse sits on the Yukon River

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John on a viewpoint overlooking Dawson City and the Yukon River

[regent-overthinker]

The biggest cowards are the ones without ambition

Fuck the wall, build the dams

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(Based on the 12 largest primary rivers by watershed area)

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Juveline Gulls - August 2023 There were a lot of gulls flying around the Five Fingers Rapids. The viewing platform near the river put me close enough to get several good images of the juveniles with their parent. MWM

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Breezly Bruin headcannon (Nome edition)

With Camp Frostbite having been deactivated, you have to imagine Breezly and Sneezly's primary hangout in Nome being the main steamship docks, particularly for the barge traffic as operates on the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers via Koyuk, Unalakleet, Hooper Bay, Toksuk Bay, Bethel and onwards to the rail and road heads at Fairbanks and Yutana.

[realartisbetter]

(via A Road Trip from Anchorage to Dawson City)

[rabbitcruiser]

Miles Canyon, YT (No. 3)

The Miles Canyon Basalts represent a package of rocks that include various exposures of basaltic lava flows and cones that erupted and flowed across an ancient pre-glacial landscape in south-central Yukon.

The volcanic rocks are best exposed and most easily accessible at the Miles Canyon location where the Yukon River cuts through a succession of flows south of Whitehorse. In the spring, good exposures can also be seen immediately downstream from the Yukon River hydro dam in Whitehorse which was built to extract energy from the cataracts that were the White Horse Rapids. These rapids and the Miles Canyon provided a significant challenge to gold-seekers heading to the Klondike Gold Rush, and also established the upstream terminus for paddle-wheel river boats. Thus, the Miles Canyon Basalts are the reason for the establishment of the townsite of Closeleigh, eventually the City of Whitehorse.

Source: Wikipedia

[lschuyler]

Another day, another glimpse of a similar view.

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Yukon River Bridge near Whitehorse

[footloose-travel]

The ferry to cross the Yukon River at Dawson City.

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thinking about her

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Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon

Taken October 2022

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Foot bridge across Natasaheen River near Carcross in Yukon, Canada. (galenfrysinger.com)