Klondike River
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Key facts
- Native name
- Tr'ondëk ( Hän )
- Country
- Canada
- Territory
- Yukon
- Source
- Ogilvie Mountains
- Mouth
- Yukon River
- Location
- Dawson City , Yukon , Canada
- Length
- 160 km (99 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Yukon
- Continent
- North America
- Elevation
- 320
- Image
- Klondike River crossing Dempster Highway 1.JPG
- Length
- 168
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- Commons category
- Klondike River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Yukon River
- Commons gallery
- Klondike River
- watershed area
- 8000
- different from
- Klondike
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Encyclopedic overview
The Klondike River (Hän: Tr'ondëk) is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush and the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory. The Klondike River rises in the Ogilvie Mountains and flows into the Yukon River at Dawson City.
Its name comes from the Hän word Tr'ondëk ( IPA: [ʈʂʼoⁿdək]) meaning hammerstone, a tool which was used to hammer down stakes used to set salmon nets.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klondike River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.