Dawson City
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| Weather | 6°C, Wind NE at 2 km/h, 98% Humidity |
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| Population | 1,410 (2017) |
| Town | 1980 |
| City | 1902 |
| Climate | Dfc |
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| ID | 734464 |
About Dawson City
Dawson City is a town on the Yukon River in the Yukon, in northwest Canada. A base during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, the town has several preserved frontier-style buildings. Many of these are found in the Dawson Historical Complex. The Dawson City Museum outlines the history of the Gold Rush, as well as the area's geology and original settlers, through interactive exhibits and gold-pouring demonstrations.
Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada
... CBC News says Nun cho ga was unearthed after a miner called his boss over to examine something that was hit by his bulldozer in the mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City...
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... Mr Griffiths has now sent it to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City - home of the Sourtoe Cocktail...
UK man donates frostbitten toe to Yukon bar
... Nick Griffiths had his big toe posted to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City after he lost it to frostbite competing in an extreme winter marathon in 2018...
Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada
A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in The permafrost of north-western Canada - The First such discovery in North America .
The mummified Ice Age mammoth is thought to be More Than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on Tuesday.
The area of The Find belongs to The Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.
The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a Baby Mammoth in The permafrost of Siberia in 2007.
It said it was " The Most complete mummified mammoth found in North America " and only The Second such find in The World .
The Baby , thought to be female, has been named Nun cho ga, meaning " Big Baby animal" in The Han language spoken by Native Americans in The area.
" Nun cho ga is beautiful And One of The Most incredible mummified Ice Age animals ever discovered in The World , " said Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula.
It is about The same size as The Siberian baby Lyuba found in 2007, which was some 42,000 years old,
It is The best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America . The partial remains of a mammoth calf, named Effie, were found in 1948 at a Gold Mine in neighbouring Alaska.
Cbc News says Nun cho ga was unearthed after a miner called his boss over to examine something that was hit by his bulldozer in The mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City .
Source of news: bbc.com
