Touring the Cities and Wilderness of Canada’s Yukon Territory
A Dawson City, Yukon, streetscape (Photo by Roger Allnutt)
By Roger Allnutt In August 1896, prospectors in the northern Yukon region of northwestern Canada, close to the Arctic Circle, discovered large deposits of gold on the Rabbit River. The tributary of the Yukon River would later be named Bonanza Creek. When news of the discovery reached the United States, it precipitated what is now […]
An Antarctic Adventure (Part I): Navigating My Trip via Buenos Aires
The tiny airport of Ushuaia, Argentina
By Joann Deutch It’s been my dream to get to the Antarctic for several years now. I was bowled over by my trip to Tromso, a city above the Arctic Circle in Norway, and it only made sense to me that I should also visit below the Antarctic Circle – the time-honored “compare and contrast.” I’m […]