At 5,959 metres above sea level, Mount Logan is the highest point in the Yukon and Canada. It is the second-highest mountain in North America, after Mount McKinley (6,194 metres) in Alaska. Lying within Kluane National Park Reserve in the Yukon’s southwestern corner. It's the world’s single most massive mountain block, composed of granite and featuring multiple summits which rise above a snow and ice plateau found at altitudes ranging from 4,500 to 5,400 metres.

The Yukon has a total area of 483,450 square kilometres, including 4,480 square kilometres of freshwater area. The majority of the land is forested––281,030 square kilometres. Eighty percent of the Yukon is wilderness, compared to a North and Central American average of 41 percent. The territory encompasses about 4.8 percent of Canada’s total land area.

The Yukon became a separate territory within the Dominion of Canada on June 13, 1898.

At 5,959 metres above sea level, Mount Logan is the highest point in the Yukon and Canada. It is the second-highest mountain in North America, after Mount McKinley (6,194 metres) in Alaska. Lying within Kluane National Park Reserve in the Yukon’s southwestern corner. It's the world’s single most massive mountain block, composed of granite and featuring multiple summits which rise above a snow and ice plateau found at altitudes ranging from 4,500 to 5,400 metres.

The Yukon has a total area of 483,450 square kilometres, including 4,480 square kilometres of freshwater area. The majority of the land is forested––281,030 square kilometres. Eighty percent of the Yukon is wilderness, compared to a North and Central American average of 41 percent. The territory encompasses about 4.8 percent of Canada’s total land area.

The Yukon became a separate territory within the Dominion of Canada on June 13, 1898.