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Dawson Dawson, Yukon, Canada Aerial view of Dawson City on the banks of the Yukon River in Canada, surrounded by forested hills and mountains. Dawson City during the gold rush of the 1890s
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Dawson Dawson, on the bank of the Yukon River in the Yukon territory.

Dawson

Yukon, Canada
Also known as: Dawson City
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Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at nearby Bonanza Creek in 1896. During the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, Dawson’s population exceeded 30,000, only to be followed by a spectacular...

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