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    The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up...
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    Skagway Airport (IATA: SGY, ICAO: PAGY, FAA LID: SGY) is a state-owned public-use airport in the city of Skagway, Alaska. This airport is included in the...
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    Area, Alaska. Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area map, 2000 census: Alaska Department of Labor Hoonah-Angoon Census Area map, 2010 census: Alaska Department...
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    White Pass and Yukon Route (category Transportation in Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska)
    Class III 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has...
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    the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada, linking the coastal town of Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson...
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    Haines and Skagway. The day boat routes connect the smaller communities of Southeast Alaska with each other and with the Southeast Alaska mainline communities...
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    Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (category Protected areas of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska)
    direction. There are four units, including three in Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska and a fourth in the Pioneer Square National Historic District in...
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    Soapy Smith (category People from the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska)
    and Creede, both in Colorado, and in Skagway, Alaska. He was killed in the shootout on Juneau Wharf in Skagway, on July 8, 1898. Jefferson Smith was...
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    on the border of the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia, Canada. It leads from Skagway, Alaska, to the chain of lakes at the headwaters...
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    The Skagway–Fraser Border Crossing connects the communities of Skagway, Alaska and Carcross, Yukon on the Canada–United States border. Alaska Highway...
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    inhabitants Metlakatla - 1,454 inhabitants Skagway - 1,240 inhabitants Craig - 1,036 inhabitants Southeast Alaska includes the Tongass National Forest (which...
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    of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska. During the Klondike Gold Rush, prospectors disembarked at its...
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    of only three cities in southeast Alaska which are accessible by road to another city, the other two being Skagway and Hyder. The primary mode of intra-Alaskan...
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    Territory, Canada, not Alaska as many a would-be miner believed. Still, the easiest route was by ship to Skagway, or Dyea, in Southeast Alaska. Miners had their...
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    between 1969 and 1971 for the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y) in Skagway, Alaska. Units 101-107 were built in May 1969 while units 108-110 were built...
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    most prospectors took the route through the ports of Dyea and Skagway, in Southeast Alaska. Here, the "Klondikers" could follow either the Chilkoot or the...
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    for the tourism season, with operations between Carcross and Skagway, Alaska. The Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A) is planning to...
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    received 28% of the vote. This is the most recent election in which Sitka, Skagway, and Juneau voted for the Republican candidate. Hoonah–Angoon Census Area...
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  • (Sabie), Mpumalanga Bridal Veil Falls (Skagway, Alaska), in Skagway Bridal Veil Falls (Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska), in Keystone Canyon, flowing into...
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    com. Retrieved 2012-10-26. "Skagway Spectacular Sightseeing Tours, Skagway Tours, Skagway Alaska Tours, Skagway Tour, Skagway Train Ride, White Pass, White...
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    ferries dock in Haines and Skagway connecting to the Alaska Highway via Whitehorse, Yukon. In addition to the traditional Alaska Marine Highway ferries,...
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  • Mo Mountain Mutts (category Companies based in Alaska)
    Mutts is an American dog-walking and dog-training company based in Skagway, Alaska. It came to public attention in 2023, when a video of its dog bus went...
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  • voyage, a crew member beats him with a club to enforce discipline. Once in Alaska, a frontiersman named John Thornton drops his harmonica which Buck retrieves...
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    The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 1 unorganized borough. Alaska and the state of Louisiana are the only states that do...
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    Columbia. The third line could go from Carmacks to either Haines or Skagway, Alaska. The latter path by way of Whitehorse, Yukon, the northern terminus...
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    Frank H. Reid (category People from the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska)
    Oregon, District 29. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he settled in Skagway, Alaska, where he worked as a bartender at the Klondike saloon, believed to...
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    Alaska, Alaska greatly profited because it was along the easiest transportation route to the Yukon goldfields. Numerous new cities, such as Skagway,...
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  • List of White Pass and Yukon Route locomotives and cars (category Narrow gauge railroads in Alaska)
    herself into stone at Skagway bay and who (according to the story) now causes the strong, channeled winds which blow toward Haines, Alaska. The rough seas caused...
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    southeast toward Marsh Lake, Yukon while Yukon Highway 2 cuts south to Skagway, Alaska. Eventually, Yukon Highway 1 intersects with Yukon Highway 8 and Yukon...
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    Sarah Palin (category People from the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska)
    moved to Skagway, Alaska, where her father had been hired to teach. They relocated to Eagle River, Anchorage in 1969, and settled in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1972...
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