Key facts
- Official name
- Tr'ondëk-Klondike
- Criteria
- Cultural: iv
- Inscription
- 2023 (45th Session )
- Area
- 334.54 ha
- Buffer zone
- 351.7 ha
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Yukon
- Image
- Men travelling with dogsled, Klondike Valley (J6187).jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Klondike, Yukon
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Klondike (/ˈklɒndaɪk/; from Hän Tr'ondëk 'hammerstone water') is a region of the territory of Yukon, in northwestern Canada. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City. The area is merely an informal geographic region, and has no function to the territory as any kind of administrative region.
The Klondike is famed due to the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1896 and lasted until 1899. Since then, gold has been mined continuously in that area, except for a pause in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klondike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.