Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	60° 10' 3'' North , 134° 42' 26'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	60.16759,-134.70735
GeoHash:	G#: c48nq9jje
Köppen climate type:	Dsc : Dry-summer subarctic climate

The village of Carcross was originally the location of a hunting camp used by the Tlingit and Tagish people. It was first called Caribou Crossing because a huge herd of caribou migrated across the narrow strait twice a year. During the Gold Rush the herd provided a much needed source of food for the prospectors. It was almost hunted to extinction.
Carcross was a significant location during the Klondike Gold Rush. All of the stampeders using the Chilkoot Trail, the White Pass Trail or the White Pass and Yukon Railroad passed through Carcross. Prior to the completion of the railroad in 1899, the Chilkoot and White Pass trails converged just south of Bennet. At Bennet a huge boat building industry flourished. The wooden boats were small “river runners” that had a chance of surviving the Whitehorse Rapids in the Yukon River, one of the most dangerous parts of the trip.
Once a boat was acquired at Bennet the rest of the journey to Dawson could be done on the water. The boats could travel the full length of Lake Bennet to the narrow strait at Carrcross then through the northern end of Tagish Lake, into Marsh Lake and then the Yukon River.


No minerals currently recorded for this locality.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

Click on geological units on the map for more information. Click here to view full-screen map on Macrostrat.org

Paleogene - Cretaceous 23.03 - 145 Ma ID: 638975	Igneous: intrusive; Intrusive: undivided Age: Phanerozoic (23.03 - 145 Ma) Description: Eastern Alaska, Yukon, Mackenzie region, Intermontane Belt Comments: Orogen, magmatic arc/suite; Gordey & Makepeace, 2003 Lithology: Plutonic rocks, intrusive complex, batholith Reference: J.C. Harrison, M.R. St-Onge, O.V. Petrov, S.I. Strelnikov, B.G. Lopatin, F.H. Wilson, S. Tella, D. Paul, T. Lynds, S.P. Shokalsky, C.K. Hults, S. Bergman, H.F. Jepsen, and A. Solli. Geological map of the Arctic. doi:10.4095/287868. Geological Survey of Canada Map 2159A. [2]
Late Cretaceous 66 - 100.5 Ma ID: 2044659	Prospector Mountain Gp Age: Late Cretaceous (66 - 100.5 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Prospector Mountain Group Comments: Hart & Radloff (1990) - YGS OF 1990-4 Lithology: Major:: {quartz monzonite,granite,alaskite,granodiorite} Reference: Yukon Geological Survey. Yukon Bedrock Geology Map. Yukon Government. [24]
Middle Jurassic - Early Jurassic 163.5 - 201.3 Ma ID: 3190652	Mesozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Jurassic (163.5 - 201.3 Ma) Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

Data and map coding provided by Macrostrat.org, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

References