See also:SKAGWAY (a native name said to mean " See also:home of the See also:north See also:wind ")
, a See also:city in S.E
.
See also:Alaska, in See also:lat
.
590 28' N. and See also:long
.
13 5° 20' W., at the mouth of the See also:river See also:Skagway, on an indentation of Taiya Inlet, a See also:branch of Chilkoot Inlet, leading out of See also:Lynn See also:Canal
.
Pop
.
(1910) 872
.
It is the seaward See also:terminus of the See also:Yukon & See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Pass railway, by which goods and passengers reach the See also:Klondike; and is connected with See also:Dawson by See also:telegraph and. with See also:Seattle by See also:cable, and with Seattle, See also:San Francisco and other Pacific ports by steamers
.
The See also:climate is comparatively dry (See also:annual precipitation about 21.75 in.); between 1898 and 1902 the minimum recorded temperature was' 10° (See also:March), the maximum 92° (See also:July), and the greatest monthly range 73° (Match)
.
Though settled somewhat earlier, Skagway first became important during the See also:rush in 1896 for the Klondike See also:gold-See also:fields, for which it is the most convenient entrance by the trail over White Pass, the 'See also:lower of the two passes to the
headwaters of the Yukon
.
A See also:post-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was established here in See also:November 1897
.
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