Carcross
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Martin, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 317 residents
- Description: human settlement in Yukon, Canada
- Also known as: “Carcross, Yukon” and “Caribou Crossing”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carcross Airport and Carcross Water Aerodrome.
Carcross Airport
Aerodrome
This is a list of airports in Yukon. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System.
Carcross Water Aerodrome
Aerodrome
This is a list of airports in Yukon. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System.
Carcross Desert
Photo: JKBrooks85, Public domain.
Carcross Desert, located outside Carcross, Yukon, Canada, is a series of sand dunes. The Carcross Desert measures approximately 2.6 km2, or 259 ha.
Carcross
- Categories: human settlement, census subdivision in Canada, and locality
- Location: Yukon, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.16679° or 60° 10′ 0″ northLongitude
-134.70867° or 134° 42′ 31″ westPopulation
317Elevation
659 metres (2,162 feet)Open location code
94G7578R+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 2138092203OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5916754Wikidata ID
Q1035637
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Satellite Map
Discover Carcross from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Carcross” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Carcross”
- Chinese: “卡克罗斯”
- Czech: “Carcross”
- Czech: “Caribou Crossing”
- Dutch: “Carcross”
- Finnish: “Carcross”
- Finnish: “Cariboo Crossing”
- Finnish: “Caribou Crossing”
- French: “Carcross”
- German: “Carcross Desert”
- German: “Carcross”
- Hebrew: “קארקרוס”
- Indonesian: “Carcross, yukon”
- Indonesian: “Carcross, Yukon”
- Indonesian: “Carcross”
- Irish: “Carcross”
- Italian: “Carcross”
- Japanese: “カークロス”
- Japanese: “カリブー・クロッシング”
- Malayalam: “കാർക്രോസ്”
- Persian: “کارکراس”
- Portuguese: “Carcross”
- Russian: “Каркросс”
- Slovak: “Carcross”
- Spanish: “Carcross”
- Spanish: “Caribou Crossing”
- Swedish: “Carcross”
- Ukrainian: “Каркросс”
- Urdu: “کارکراس”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Carcross Community Club and Isabelle Pringle Library (Carcross).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carcross”. Photo: Richard Martin, CC BY 2.0.