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| | Yukon River |
 | | Yukon River, 3185 km long (of which 1149 km lie in Canada), fifth-longest river in N America, rises in Tagish Lk on the northern BC border, flows N and NW across the YUKON TERRITORY into Alaska, where it flows in a great westward arc to Norton Sound on the Bering Sea. |
 | | The Pelly R (608 km) rises in the SELWYN MTS to the E and descends to the Yukon at Fort Selkirk. |
 | | In Alaska the major tributaries are the Porcupine R (721 km), which rises in the NW Yukon Territory, the Tanana from the S, and the Koyukuk from the N. The Yukon is a slow-moving, braided stream, and is shallow except when swollen by spring waters. |
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