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Encyclopedia Britannica



SKAGWAY (a native name said to mean " home of the north wind ")

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 166 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SKAGWAY (a native name said to mean " home of the north wind ") , a city in S.E.
Alaska
 , in lat. 590 28' N. and
long
 . 13 5 20' W., at the mouth of the river Skagway, on an indentation of Taiya Inlet, a branch of Chilkoot Inlet, leading out of Lynn Canal. Pop. (1910) 872. It is the seaward terminus of the
Yukon
  &
White
  Pass railway, by which goods and passengers reach the
Klondike
 ; and is connected with
Dawson
  by telegraph and. with
Seattle
  by cable, and with
Seattle
 , San Francisco and other Pacific ports by steamers. The climate is comparatively dry (annual precipitation about 21.75 in.); between 1898 and 1902 the minimum recorded temperature was' 10 (
March
 ), the maximum 92 (July), and the greatest monthly range 73 (Match). Though settled somewhat earlier, Skagway first became important during the rush in 1896 for the
Klondike
  gold-fields, for which it is the most convenient entrance by the trail over
White
  Pass, the 'lower of the two passes to the
headwaters of the
Yukon
 . A post-office was established here in November 1897.


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