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Old 05-24-2016, 12:41 PM   #218
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Default Re: Alaska attempt daily report

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Originally Posted by Mart View Post
Good stuff, Prof. Continental Divide is a thing, or feature rather than a place name. It's the imaginary line where water drains into the pacific on one side and the atlantic on the other. So unless this little place was actually really called that name, it may be more likely that it was on or near the continental divide. I've seen the signs, normally at the tops of various mountain passes.
I was just showing my wife the map of the Yukon and, low and behold, it actually has Continental Divide on that map! Google Maps didn't have it.



And I just found a Google image of the place.



That portable building on the right is the "motel".
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