Watson Lake
Watson Lake is a town of 800 people in southeastern Yukon, close to the British Columbia border. Watson Lake is a common stop for those driving up from British Columbia.
- Town with about 1,550 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 680 metres (2,220 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code YQH
- …is also known as “Watson Lake, Yukon”
- Description: town on the Alaska Highway in Yukon, Canada
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sign Post Forest.
Watson Lake
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Latitude
60.0624° or 60° 3′ 45″ north
Longitude
-128.7068° or 128° 42′ 25″ west
UN/LOCODE
CA WAT
Open location code
94GH376V+X7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Watson Lake” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Watson Lake”
- Catalan: “Watson Lake”
- Cebuano: “Watson Lake”
- Chinese: “沃森莱克”
- Dutch: “Watson Lake”
- French: “Watson Lake”
- German: “Watson Lake”
- Greek: “Γουώτσον Λέικ”
- Indonesian: “Watson Lake, Yukon”
- Indonesian: “Watson Lake”
- Italian: “Watson Lake”
- Kalaallisut: “Watson Lake”
- Lithuanian: “Votson Leikas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Watson Lake”
- Norwegian: “Watson Lake”
- Persian: “واتسون لیک”
- Polish: “Watson Lake”
- Portuguese: “Watson Lake”
- Russian: “Уотсон-Лейк”
- Spanish: “Watson Lake (Yukón)”
- Spanish: “Watson Lake”
- Swedish: “Watson Lake”
- Turkish: “Watson Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Вотсон-Лейк”
- Urdu: “واٹسن لیک، یوکون”
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