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Alaska water resource region. The Alaska water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major ...
The Yukon River Basin is located between the Yukon Territory in Canada and Alaska in the United States, with a small portion in British Columbia, Canada. This basin is made up of 13 other individual basins that drain into the Yukon River and other adjoining rivers and tributaries. The Yukon River Basin is 330,000 square miles (850,000 km 2) in ...
The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon (itself named after the river). The lower half of the river continues westward through the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is 3,190 kilometres (1,980 mi) [11] [12] long and empties into the ...
The territory is about the shape of a right triangle, bordering the American state of Alaska to the west, the Northwest Territories to the east and British Columbia to the south. Yukon covers 482,443 km 2 , of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world , and, among the ...
Alsek River ( / ˈælˌsɛk /; Tlingit Aalseix̱' ) is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. [3] It enters the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay . Most of the Alsek River's basin is within protected wilderness areas and National Parks. [2] The Alsek and its main tributary, the Tatshenshini River, are part ...
The Stikine River ( / stɪˈkiːn / stick-EEN [4]) is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. It drains a large, remote upland area known as the Stikine Country east of the Coast Mountains. Flowing west and south for 610 kilometres (379 mi), [2] it empties into various straits of the ...
The Taiga of North America is a Level I ecoregion of North America designated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in its North American Environmental Atlas . The taiga ecoregion includes much of interior Alaska as well as the Yukon forested area, and extends on the west from the Bering Sea to the Richardson Mountains in on the ...
2,129 ft (649 m) [1] Length. 200 mi (320 km) [3] The White River ( French: Rivière Blanche; Hän: Tadzan ndek) is a tributary about 200 miles (320 km) long, of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon. [3] The Alaska Highway crosses the White River near Beaver Creek .