Yellowknife

city of

Northwest Territories

description

Yellowknife (/ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/; Dogrib: Sǫǫ̀mbak’è) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

geological mapping expeditions

Yellowknife is usually where scientists start geological mapping expeditions when researching the oldest known rocks in North America.

Mars

Curiosity landed in Quad 51 (nicknamed Yellowknife) of Aeolis Palus in the crater Gale.
On 10 August 2012, NASA announced that the section of Mars where the Curiosity of the Mars Science Laboratory mission landed would be renamed Yellowknife, in recognition of the city of Yellowknife.

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9476822

random

Critical Mass flyer

shore of

Great Slave Lake

tags

only city in the Northwest Territories
city

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2061

Wikipedia

Yellowknife (Wikipedia) Yellowknife (/ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/; Dogrib: Sǫǫ̀mbak’è) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.