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Yukon shall be bounded as follows: On the south, by the
Province of British Columbia and the State of Alaska; on the
west, by the said State of Alaska; on the north, by that part of the
Arctic Ocean called Beaufort Sea; and on the east, by a line
beginning at the intersection of the north boundary of British
Columbia with a line passing through a boundary pipe post set
in concrete, trench and mound, numbered 600, planted by the
British Columbia-Yukon-Northwest Territories Boundary
Commission approximately 1 chain westerly of the left bank of
the Liard River, said line having a bearing of 309 degrees with
reference to the meridian through said post; thence northwesterly
along said line to a point on the line of watershed separating the
streams flowing into the Liard River below the La Biche River
or into the Mackenzie River from those flowing into the La Biche
River, into the Liard River above the La Biche River, or into the
Yukon River; thence northwesterly along said line of watershed
to the line of watershed of the basin of Peel River; thence
northerly along the line of watershed between the Peel and
Mackenzie Rivers to the sixty-seventh degree of north latitude;
thence westerly along the parallel of the sixty-seventh degree of
north latitude to the line of watershed between the Peel and
Yukon Rivers; thence northerly along the said line of watershed
to the trail across the portage in McDougall Pass between Rat and
Bell Rivers; thence due north to the northern limit of the Yukon
territory; the said territory to include the islands within twenty
statute miles from the shores of the Beaufort Sea as far as the
aforesaid due north line from McDougall Pass.
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