Yukon Territory

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1. Territory in northwest Canada, bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Northwest Territories to the east, British Columbia to the south, and Alaska to the west.

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In the 1890s, gold strikes in the Klondike River region attracted over thirty thousand prospectors. (See Klondike gold rush.)

Example Sentences

Maloney provided exceptionally well-preserved seaweed fossils that are roughly one billion years old, collected from Yukon Territory, Canada.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025

Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City in Yukon Territory, and the new council were elected last month.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

The next day, an American F-22 attacked a cylindrical object over the Yukon Territory in Canada that was smaller than the Chinese surveillance device.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

F-22 fighters shot down unidentified, unmanned objects off the Alaskan coast and in Canada’s Yukon Territory, respectively, and with Sunday’s dramatic takedown of an octagonal object over the waters of Lake Huron.

From Washington Times • Feb. 13, 2023

It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer