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Dawson City and Dawson Creek are on the same latitude as Reykjavik and Edinburgh respectively. Dawson City is situated where the Klondyke flows into the Yukon river: in 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, the town grew rapidly and was known as ‘the Paris of the North’. Today Dawson City has a population of around 1500, the tarmac stops at the edge of town, and its muddy streets, board walks and wooden buildings certainly give the town character. The flight from Whitehorse had a frontier feel about it aboard a DC3 ‘Dakota’