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Klondike,
A region in the Northwest Territory of Canada, bordering on the Klondike and Yukon rivers.
The first white people who visited the region went there in the interest of the Hudson Bay Company.
It is said that they knew of the existence of gold there, but as they did not suppose it existed in large quantities, they , with an area of 198,300 square miles, 2,000 of which is water surface.
In February, 1898, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey issued a new map of the Yukon River region.
The map includes the territory between long.
38° and 166° W., and lat. 60° to 67° N. The Yukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike regionYukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike region, and the portion within Alaska is very fully treated.
The country between Forty-Mile Post and Stewart River is also given with minute exactness.
The results of military and scientific explorations undertaken by the United States government in Alaska indicate that that Territory contains a larger amount of gold, besides other eco
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yukon River, or Kwickpak River, (search)