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Klondike
tributary of the Yukon River in northwestern Canada, from Kutchin (Athabaskan)
throndiuk
, said to mean "hammer-water" and to be a reference to the practice of driving stakes into the riverbed to support fish traps. Scene of a gold rush after 1896.