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Land of the Midnight Sun,Yukon Territory In the Yukon Territory, there is a lot of mining. They mine for gold, silver, and gas. There is also a lot of fishing, hunting, electric power, tourism, and many people cross the Yukon Territory on the Alaska Highway. They get hundreds of thousands of people from the Alaska Highway. Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon Territory. Whitehorse is on the Alaska Highway. It is the only city in Yukon. Another major city is Dawson. In the Yukon Territory, there are cold winters, and warm summers. January's average temperature is around 0 degrees fahrenheit, in Whitehorse. and -17 degrees fahrenheit near Dawson. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Yukon was -81 degrees fahrenheit bear the Alaska border at Snag airport. Summer average temperatures are 50 degrees farhenheit in the North, and 65 degrees fahrenheit in the South. The record high temperature was in Mayo at 97 degrees fahrenheit. The average snowfall is around 28 inches in the North and to more than 79 inches in the South. Rainfall is 4-10 inches per year.
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Some major landforms are, Mount Logan, the Rockie Mountains, and St. Elias Range. Mount Logan is 19,850 ft. tall. the Rocky Mountains are 3,000 miles long. St. Elias Range is in the Southern part of Yukon.
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The major bodies of water in Yukon are the Yukon River, which is 1,979 miles long. The other major body of water is the Artic Ocean, which is the smallest ocean and very icy.
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The Yukon Territory's fish is the Salmon, mostly fished in the Yukon River System. Also, the fur is wolf(wolverines, Beavers, Lynxes, and martens fur which they use living as trappers with. Yukon's bird is the Raven, and the flower is the Fireweed. These things are very important to the Yukon Territory.
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Sources: [|www.google.com], [|www.worldbookonline.com], Discover Canada Yukon by Anne Tempelman-Kluit (book)

By Rylee Arena and Autumn Schell