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Yukon Land Statistics
Land Area
(land) 474,391 sq km
(water) 8,052 sq km
(TOTAL) 482,443 sq km (9th)
To convert sq km (kilometers) to sq miles, multiply kilometers by: 0.386102 Land Area (all provinces)
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Horizontal Width (example) 925 km (575 miles) from Mt. Logan, straight east to border with Northwest Territories
Vertical Length (example) 1157 km (719 miles) from Ivvavik National Park, southeast to Watson Lake
Note: Lengths and widths are point-to-point, straight-line measurements from a Mercator map projection, and will vary some using other map projections Bordering Country (1) USA (Alaska)
Bordering Provinces (1) British Columbia
Bordering Territory (1) Northwest Territories
U.S. Border with Alaska 1165 km (724 mi)
Geographic Center about 27 km NE of Mayo
 Highest Point Mt. Logan, the highest point in Canada, at 5,959 m (19,951 ft.) picture here!
 Lowest Point Mackenzie Bay, 0 m
Latitude and Longitude here!
Relative Location here!
Yukon Landforms Landforms
Yukon, one of Canada's most stunning landscapes, is replete with precipitous snow-capped mountains, volcanoes (active and dormant), glaciers, snowmelt lakes, cold water rivers, coniferous forests and the stark landscape of the Arctic's frozen tundra.
Arguably, Yukon's most striking landforms are located in Kluane National Park. The park's Saint Elias Mountain Range is home to seven of Canada's ten highest mountains, including Mt. Logan, the country's highest point.
Immense non-polar ice fields cover the park, and numerous glaciers (frozen rivers of ice) are found here. In fact, Mt. Logan itself is surrounded by ice nearly one mile deep; Picture here!
The Selwyn Mountains, and fringes of the Mackenzie Mountains along the Yukon-NWT border, contain rugged mountain peaks, high-plateaus and deep river valleys. Other mountains ranges of note include the Ogilvie, Pelly and Richardson.
The Pacific Ring of Fire,
a ring of volcanic in origin mountains that loop around the Pacific Ocean, contain Canada's most-significant volcanoes. One of them, active Volcano Mountain, is located in the Fort Selkirk Volcanic Field, just to the west of Pelly Crossing.
Tundra dominates the land above Yukon's coniferous forests and the Arctic Circle. Tundra is a frost-covered (often frozen) treeless plain; temperatures are cold throughout the year, with very little precipitation.
As for rivers, much of Yukon is drained by its namesake river. The Yukon rises in the northern reaches of British Columbia, flowing some 3,700 km (2,300 miles), across Yukon and the U.S. State of Alaska, to empty into the Bering Sea.
Other rivers of note include the Liard, Peel, Porcupine, Stewart and Tatshenshini. There are a number of finger-like alpine lakes in Yukon, mostly in the mountain valleys of the south.
Landforms of Canada here!
Landforms of North America here!
Rivers of North America here!
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