Forty Mile
Forty Mile is best known as the oldest town in Canada’s Yukon. It was established in 1886 at the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers by prospectors and fortune hunters in search of gold.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Maedward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: locality in Yukon, Canada (lat 64.45, lon -140.55)
- Also known as: “Forty Mile, Yukon”
Forty Mile
- Categories: locality, ghost town, residential building, and building
- Location: Yukon, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
64.42329° or 64° 25′ 24″ northLongitude
-140.53283° or 140° 31′ 58″ westElevation
287 metres (942 feet)Open location code
93PXCFF8+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 7515978452OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwelling
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Forty Mile” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Forty Mile”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورتى مايل”
- French: “Forty Mile”
- German: “Forty Mile”
- Hebrew: “פורטי מייל”
- Portuguese: “Forty Mile”
- Russian: “Форти-Майл”
- Ukrainian: “Форті Майл”
- Ukrainian: “Форті-Майл”
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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 “Forty Mile”. Photo: Maedward, CC BY-SA 3.0.