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Yukon〔 (also commonly called the Yukon) is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital and Yukon's only city. The territory was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898. The federal government's ''Yukon Act'', which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, confirmed "Yukon" as the standard, though "Yukon Territory" is also still popular in usage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yukon Act, SC 2002, c 7 )〕 Though officially bilingual (English and French), the Yukon Government also recognizes First Nations languages. At , Yukon's Mount Logan, in Kluane National Park and Reserve, is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest on the North American continent (after Denali in the U.S. state of Alaska). Most of Yukon has a Subarctic climate, characterized by long cold winters and brief warm summers. The Arctic Ocean coast has a tundra climate. Notable rivers include the Yukon River, after which the territory was named, as well as the Pelly, Stewart, Peel, White and Tatshenshini rivers. == History == (詳細はEuropeans, central and southern Yukon was populated by First Nations people, and the area escaped glaciation. Sites of archeological significance in Yukon hold some of the earliest evidence of the presence of human occupation in North America.〔Services, Cultural. Archaeology Program. Department of Tourism and Culture. () March 8th, 2011. (April 7th, 2012. ) http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/archaeology.html.〕 The sites safeguard the history of the first people and the earliest First Nations of the Yukon.〔 The volcanic eruption of Mount Churchill in approximately 800 AD in the U.S. state of Alaska blanketed southern Yukon with a layer of ash which can still be seen along the Klondike Highway and forms part of the oral tradition of First Nations peoples in Yukon and further south in Canada. Coastal and inland First Nations had extensive trading networks. European incursions into the area only began early in the 19th century with the fur trade, followed by missionaries. By the 1870s and 1880s gold miners began to arrive. This drove a population increase that justified the establishment of a police force, just in time for the start of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. The increased population coming with the gold rush led to the separation of the Yukon district from the Northwest Territories and the formation of the separate Yukon Territory in 1898. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yukon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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