2022.07: Airview West, Yukon River, Dalton Highway, Alaska, USA

Location: Airview West, Yukon River, Dalton Highway, Alaska, USA

Date: 2022.07

Videographer: Jesen

Camera: DJI Mavic 2

Retouch: Adobe Premiere Pro & Adobe After Effects

Copyright: www.haomingxiong.com

The Yukon River is the longest river in Yukon & Alaska. The third longest river in North America, flowing northwest from the Coastal Range mountains of northern British Columbia, through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Its overall length is 3185 kilometres (km), with 1149 km within Canadian borders. The watershed’s total drainage area is 840 000 sq. km (323 800 sq. km in Canada) and it discharges 195 cubic kilometres of water per year. During the Klondike Gold Rush, the Yukon River was one of the principal means of transportation. Paddle-wheel riverboats continued to ply the river until the 1950s when the Klondike Highway was completed. Yukon means “great river” in Gwich’in. The river was called Kwiguk, or “large stream”, in Yupik. The Lewes River is the former name of the upper course of the Yukon, from Marsh Lake to the confluence of the Pelly River at Fort Selkirk.

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