Porcupine River
The Porcupine River is a 916 km tributary of the Yukon River in Canada and the United States. It rises in the Ogilvie Mountains north of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Canada and in Alaska
- Also known as: “Ch’oonjik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Yukon Airport.
Fort Yukon Airport
Aerodrome
Fort Yukon Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in the city of Fort Yukon, in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Fort Yukon Airport is situated 2½ miles southeast of Porcupine River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Yukon.
Fort Yukon
Village
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Fort Yukon is a village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, straddling the Arctic Circle. The population, predominantly Gwichʼin Alaska Natives, was 428 at the 2020 census, down from 595 in 2000. Fort Yukon is situated 2½ miles southeast of Porcupine River.
Porcupine River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Porcupine River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بوركوباين”
- Asturian: “Ríu Porcupine”
- Basque: “Porcupine ibaia”
- Basque: “Porcupine”
- Belarusian: “Порк’юпайн”
- Belarusian: “Рака Порк’юпайн”
- Bulgarian: “Поркюпайн”
- Catalan: “Porcupine River”
- Catalan: “riu Porcupine”
- Catalan: “Riu Porcupine”
- Cebuano: “Porcupine River”
- Chinese: “豪猪河”
- Chinese: “豪豬河”
- Chuvash: “Поркьюпайн”
- Croatian: “Porcupine”
- Czech: “Porcupine”
- Danish: “Porcupine River”
- Dutch: “Porcupine River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر پوركوپين”
- French: “Porcupine”
- German: “Porcupine River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Porcupine”
- Italian: “Porcupine”
- Japanese: “ポーキュパイン川”
- Japanese: “ポーキュパン川”
- Korean: “포큐파인강”
- Lithuanian: “Porkjupainas”
- Mingrelian: “პორკუპაინი”
- Polish: “Porcupine”
- Portuguese: “Rio Porcupine”
- Russian: “Поркьюпайн”
- Serbian: “Поркјупајн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Porcupine”
- Spanish: “Porcupine”
- Spanish: “Rio Porcupine”
- Spanish: “Río Porcupine”
- Turkish: “Porcupine Nehri”
- Venetian: “Porcupine”
- Welsh: “Afon Porcupine”
- Western Mari: “Поркьюпайн”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Homebrew Island and Hospital Lake.
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