Grand Forks

Grand Forks was a town and former community at the confluence of and Eldorado Creek in the Canadian territory of . First settled about 1896, it became the second-largest settlement in the Klondike.
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  • Locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 603 metres (1,978 feet)
  • …is also known as “Grand Forks, Yukon”
  • Description: human settlement in Yukon, Canada

Places of Interest

Highlights include Discovery Claim.
JKBrooks85, Public domain.
is a mining claim at , a watercourse in the , Canada.

Grand Forks

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Latitude
63.92025° or 63° 55′ 13″ north
Longitude
-139.31692° or 139° 19′ 1″ west
Open location code
94M2WMCM+46
Geo­Names ID
5964402
Wiki­data ID
Q17332337

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Grand Forks” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Grand Forks”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جراند فوركس”
  • French: “Grand Forks”
  • Japanese: “グランド・フォークス”
  • Ukrainian: “Гранд-Форкс”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґранд-Форкс”

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Yukon: Highlights

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