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Eagle is located at (64.786022, -141.199917), in a straight line about 5.9 miles (9.5 km) west of the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada at the 141st meridian Eagle is on the southern bank of the Yukon River at the end of the Taylor Highway , near Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve .
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The history of Fairbanks, the second-largest city in Alaska, can be traced to the founding of a trading post by E.T. Barnette on the south bank of the Chena River on August 26, 1901. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but a permanent settlement was not established at the site of Fairbanks until the 20th century.
Prospectors ascending the Chilkoot Pass in a long line. The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold.
Mount Sanford is the second highest peak of the Wrangell Mountains. Mount Fairweather on the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia is the second most topographically prominent mountain peak of Alaska. Mount Bear in the Saint Elias Mountains. The massive shield volcano Mount Wrangell in the Wrangell Mountains.
The General Directorate of Mineral Research & Exploration of Turkey ( Turkish: Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü, commonly known as MTA) is a scientific institution established by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources in 1935. [citation needed] General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration Building E in Ankara.
The Race to Alaska (R2AK) is an annual 750-mile adventure race from Port Townsend, Washington up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Alaska. Any form of boat is allowed, so long as it has no motors. Support crews are not allowed. [1] [2] Nearly half the teams do not make it to Alaska. [3] The record time is 4 days, set in 2016.
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