Whitehorse, Yukon, Kanada

Whitehorse er ca 23000 manna baer og er hofudstadur Yukon fylkis.  Her bua um 2/3 hlutar allra ibua i Yukon.  Her er serlega fallegt, skogar og fjallendi og storar ar sem lidast um dalbotna.  Thar er langstaerst Yukon river, sem her adur fyrr gegndi mjog storu hlutverki sem samgonguaed fyrir baeina her fyrir nordan.  Tha voru notadir gufuknunir hjolabatar og thegar mest var voru um 250 slikir batar a ferdinni a anni.  Annars ma eg til med ad segja ykkur fra littlum bae, sem reyndar tilheyrir Alaska og hetir thvi skemmtilega nafni Chicken !  Thetta er pinulittill baer og er gamall gullgrafarabaer.  Hann er langt uppi i fjollunum og forum vid tharna i gegn.  Thessi baer a ser langa sogu og adalega vegna deilna um yfirrad, en thad sem mer finnst skemmtilegast er sagan a bakvid nafnid.  Thad var thannig ad kringum arid 1900 var akvedid ad baerinn skyldi heita Ptarmigan (rjupa) en vegna deilna um stafsetngu ordsins, var malid bara leyst med thvi ad lata baeinn heita Chicken ! (kjuklingur)  Ef thetta er ekki ad leysa malid a audveldan hatt, tha veit eg ekki hvad.  En nuna er eg semsagt i Whitehorse i fallegu vedri og fallegum bae.  Kilometrateljarinn er nu kominn i ca 20350 km. 

Whitehorse is a town of 23000 people and it’s the capitol of the State of Yukon. Here, there are over 2/3 of the citizens of all Yukon. It’s especially beautiful here, great mountains, vast woodlands and roaring rivers. The biggest river would be the Yukon river, which was very important for transportation before and there were many boats using this river then. I must also tell you about another town, which actually is in Alaska, but it just has this really funny name, Chicken! It’s a tiny town and it’s an old gold-digger town. It’s way up in the mountains where Einar and I passed through. This town has it’s own story which is really old, but the funniest part of the story was the reason for the name. Around 1900 it was decided to name the town Ptarmigan, but because of a debate concerning the spelling of this word, they decided to solve the problem by naming the town Chicken instead. That was surely the easy way our of that problem. But I’m now in Whitehorse in a beautiful weather. The km counter is now at 20350 km. Ttyl - Sverrir

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[Hagbarður, 10.7.2007 kl. 00:42]

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