The Klondike River ( Hän: ') is a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

of the

Yukon River The Yukon River (Gwichʼin language, Gwich'in: ''Ųųg Han'' or ''Yuk Han'', Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik: ''Kuigpak'', Inupiaq language, Inupiaq: ''Kuukpak'', Deg Xinag language, Deg Xinag: ''Yeqin'', Hän language, Hän: ''Tth'echù' ...

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that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike River rises in the

Ogilvie Mountains The Ogilvie Mountains are a mountain range in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. Geologically they are part of the Yukon Ranges, in the upper Laramide Belt of the North American Cordillera. Geography The range lies north of Dawson Ci ...

and flows into the Yukon River at Dawson City. Its name comes from the Hän word ''Tr'ondëk'' (//) meaning ''

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'', a tool which was used to hammer down stakes used to set

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

nets.

Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

was discovered in tributaries of the Klondike River in 1896, which started the Klondike gold rush, and is still being mined today. In

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's story "

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" ('' Collier's Weekly'', 1901), this river was mentioned as "Reindeer River". (See Reindeer Lake.)

Gallery

File:Dawson City Rivers Lookout 3264px.jpg, Klondike River (left) flowing into the

(top and right) at Dawson City File:Klondike River crossing Dempster Highway 2.JPG, Klondike River crossing Dempster Highway (downstream) File:Mouth of the Klondike River to the Yukon River.JPG, Mouth of the Klondike River to the Yukon River at Dawson City

References

Rivers of Yukon Tributaries of the Yukon River Hän {{Yukon-river-stub

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