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List Of Airports In Yukon
This is a list of airports in Yukon. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Airport names in are part of the National Airports System. __TOC__ List of airports and heliports The list is sorted by the name of the community served; click the sort buttons in the table header to switch listing order. Defunct airports References {{List of airports in Canada Yukon Airports An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
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Nav Canada
Nav Canada (styled as NAV CANADA) is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established in accordance with the ''Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act'' (ANS Act). The company employs approximately 1,900 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 650 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700 technologists. It has been responsible for the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic in Canadian airspace since November 1, 1996 when the government transferred the ANS from Transport Canada to Nav Canada. As part of the transfer, or privatization, Nav Canada paid the government CA$1.5 billion. Nav Canada manages 12 million aircraft movements a year for 40,000 customers in over 18 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest air navigation service provider (ANSP) by traffic volume. Nav Canada, which operates independently of any government funding, is headquartered in Ottawa, O ...
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Beaver Creek, Yukon
Beaver Creek is a community in Yukon, Canada. Located at kilometre 1870.6 (historical mile 1202) of the Alaska Highway, southeast of Beaver Creek Airport and close to the Alcan - Beaver Creek Border Crossing, it is Canada's westernmost community. The community's main employers are a Canada Border Services Agency port, the White River First Nation and a number of tourist lodges. It is the home of the White River First Nation. The First Nation is made up of Upper Tanana speaking people whose traditional territory extends from the Donjek River into neighbouring Alaska, and Athapaskan Northern Tutchone speaking people whose traditional territories included the lower Stewart River and the area south of the Yukon River on the White and Donjek River drainages. In addition to the Alaska Highway, the community is served by the Beaver Creek Airport. The CBSA station is the furthest from the border crossing of any Canadian customs station at a distance of , and at least up to the 1990 ...
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Dawson City
Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest town in Yukon. History Prior to the Late Modern Period, the area was used for hunting/gathering by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was Tr'ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, now a National Historic Site of Canada, just across the Klondike River from modern Dawson City. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley. The current settlement was founded by Joseph Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when ...
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Chapman Aerodrome
Chapman Aerodrome is a registered aerodrome located on the shores of the Blackstone River in the Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ..., Canada. References External linksPage about this airporton COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory Registered aerodromes in Yukon {{Yukon-airport-stub ...
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Chapman Lake (Yukon)
Chapman Lake or Lake Chapman may refer to: *Chapman Lake (Pennsylvania), a reservoir in Warren County *Chapman Lake (Wisconsin), a lake in Sauk County *Jim Chapman Lake, a lake in Hopkins County, Texas *Lake Chapman (Antarctica), a lake located at Granite Harbour *Chapman Lake (Gouin Reservoir) The Chapman Lake is a vast expanse of freshwater in the central part of the Gouin Reservoir, in the territory of the town of La Tuque, in Haute-Mauricie, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This bay ex ..., Quebec, Canada See also * Chapman (other) {{geodis ...
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Carmacks Airport
Carmacks Airport is located from the community of Carmacks, Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ..., Canada. References External linksPage about this airporton COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory Registered aerodromes in Yukon {{Yukon-airport-stub ...
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Carmacks, Yukon
Carmacks is a village in Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River along the Klondike Highway, and at the west end of the Robert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake, Yukon, Watson Lake. The population is 493 (Canada Census, 2016). It is the home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone-speaking people. History The name of the community comes from George Carmack, George Washington Carmack who found coal near Tantalus Butte (locally called Coal Mine Hill) in the early 1890s. He built a trading post near the present site of Carmacks and traded with locals before opening a Coal mining, coal mine in the south bank of the Yukon River. The focus of his entrepreneurial energy switched a few years later when he or his wife, Kate Carmack, discovered gold with her brother, Keish (Skookum Jim), and Dawson Charlie (Tagish Charlie) at what was to become the Discovery Claim, near Dawson City, which started the Klondike Gold Rush. Carmacks incorporated as a village on November 1, ...
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Carcross Water Aerodrome
Carcross Water Aerodrome is adjacent to Carcross, Yukon, Canada on the shore of Grayling Bay on Tagish Lake. It's open from June to October and the area may be used by ski plane A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide both scheduled and unscheduled passenger and flight services to remote, undeveloped areas, such as the Canadian north or bush, Alaskan tundra, the African bush, or savanna, Amazon rai ...s in the winter. See also * Carcross Airport References Registered aerodromes in Yukon Seaplane bases in Yukon {{Yukon-airport-stub ...
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Carcross Airport
Carcross Airport is adjacent to Carcross, Yukon, Canada on the shore of Grayling Bay on Tagish Lake. See also *Carcross Water Aerodrome Carcross Water Aerodrome is adjacent to Carcross, Yukon, Canada on the shore of Grayling Bay on Tagish Lake. It's open from June to October and the area may be used by ski plane A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide bot ... References External linksPage about this airporton COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory Registered aerodromes in Yukon {{Yukon-airport-stub ...
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Carcross
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, ( tli, Nadashaa Héeni) is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. It is south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse. The south end of the Tagish Road is in Carcross. Carcross is also on the White Pass and Yukon Route railway. Carcross is mainly known for its world class mountain biking on the near-by Montana Mountain, and for the nearby Carcross Desert, often referred to as the "world's smallest desert." History Caribou Crossing was a fishing and hunting camp for Inland Tlingit and Tagish people. 4,500-year-old artifacts from First Nations people living in the area have been found in the region. Originally known as ''Naataase Heen'' (Tagish for ‘water running through the narrows’), Caribou Crossing was named after the migration of huge numbers of caribou across the natural land bridge between Lake Bennet ...
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Burwash Airport
Burwash Airport is located northwest of Burwash Landing, Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ..., Canada, and is operated by the Yukon government. Image:Runway, Burwash Landing airport, Yukon.jpg, Runway, Burwash Landing Airport Image:Runway 10, Burwash Landing airport, Yukon.jpg, Runway 10, Burwash Landing Airport References External links Yukon Government Airports/AerodromesBurwash Airport
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Burwash Landing
Burwash Landing is a small community, at historical mile 1093 on the Alaska Highway, in Yukon, Canada along the southern shore of Kluane Lake. The present location of Burwash Landing was first used as a summer camp by the Southern Tutchone Athabascans until a trading post was built in the early 1900s by the Jacquot brothers. The majority of the population are Aboriginal peoples, First Nations. The community is the administrative centre of the Kluane First Nation. In addition to the Alaska Highway, the community is served by the Burwash Airport. It is the home of the Kluane Museum of Natural History and the Kluane First Nation, and also home to the world's largest gold pan. In July 1937, Robert Bates and Bradford Washburn, two members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, made their way into Burwash Landing after climbing the Lucania peak and hiking over across the wilderness after their bush pilot was unable to retrieve them. Geography Burwash Landing is above sea level ...
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