Pelly River

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Pelly River
Pelly River catchment area

Pelly River catchment area

Data
location Yukon ( Canada )
River system Yukon River
Drain over Yukon River  → Bering Sea
Headwaters Mackenzie Mountains
62 ° 26 ′ 32 "  N , 129 ° 11 ′ 34"  W.
Source height 1465  m
muzzle in the Yukon River coordinates: 62 ° 46 ′ 37 "  N , 137 ° 20 ′ 48"  W 62 ° 46 ′ 37 "  N , 137 ° 20 ′ 48"  W.

length 608 km
Catchment area 48,174 km² or 51,000 km²
Discharge at the gauge Pelly Crossing
A Eo : 48,900 km² 		MQ 1952/2000
Mq 1952/2000
 		390 m³ / s
8 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Mica Creek , Needlerock Creek
Right tributaries Ross River , Orchay Creek, Blind Creek, Anvil Creek, Tay River , Earn River , Macmillan River
Communities Faro , Pelly Crossing , Ross River
The Pelly River and the Pelly Mountain Range

The Pelly River and the Pelly Mountain Range

The Pelly River is a river in the Yukon Territory .

It is one of the most water-rich tributaries of the Yukon . The only settlements are Faro and Ross River on the upper reaches and then about 350 kilometers further downstream Pelly Crossing , where the Klondike Highway crosses the river. After merging with the Macmillan River , the Pelly River flows into the Yukon near the Fort Selkirk trading post . The catchment area of ​​the Pelly River covers approximately 50,000 km². The mean discharge is over 400 m³ / s.

The Pelly River flows for 200 kilometers in a straight river valley that runs along the Tintina Trench . This is a trench system that is the northern continuation of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench .

The name of the river goes back to John Henry Pelly , a governor of the Hudson's Bay Company . Robert Campbell, a company employee who first mapped the river, named it after Pelly in 1840. George Dawson confirmed the naming of the river. In 1846 Campbell established a trading post at the confluence of the Pelly in the Yukon. However, this trading post was unsuccessful and in 1849 it burned down.

Web links

Commons : Pelly River  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Water Stewardship and Climate Change Impacts on the Yukon River (PDF, 1.8 MB) Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC). Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Pelly River at the Pelly Crossing gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
  3. ↑ Real-Time Hydrometric Data Graph for PELLY RIVER AT PELLY CROSSING (09BC001) [YT ] . Government of Canada. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
Pelly Mountains, Pelly Lakes and Pelly River
(improved map from 1896)