Klondike shipwreck brought to life with 3D scans

A Gold Rush-era shipwreck at the bottom of a Yukon lake is coming to life with the help of cutting-edge digital 3D scan images.

The images were produced in June by researchers working on the wreck of the A.J. Goddard, a 19th-century sternwheeler that vanished in Lake Laberge in 1901.

Researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology captured images of the sternwheeler with underwater sonar scanners supplied by the U.S. firms BlueView Technologies and Oceangate.

Millions of captured images were then assembled into a 3D model, similar to a recent map of the wreck of the Titanic off the east coast of Newfoundland.

Last year, an archeological team that included the Texas-based institute and the Yukon Transportation Museum announced that it had discovered the shipwreck, mostly intact, at the bottom of Lake Laberge.

Read more at CBC North

Some good images of the gold rush, a number of sailboats on Lake Labarge at 5:10

Happy 110th Birthday, White Pass & Yukon Route Railway!

WHITEHORSE - It's not Canada's best-known golden spike, but it's the most northerly and the important piece of Yukon history is celebrating its 110th birthday.

The last spike in the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway was driven in Carcross, Yukon on July 29, 1900, connecting the 177 kilometre route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse read more here and a great gallery here.


Besides building and operating an amazing railway in very hostile terrain. Another feather in their cap is the development of the shipping Container and integrated intermodal system, including designing the first dedicated Containership, the Clifford J Rogers. which was replaced by the Frank H. Brown (which I did a little Seamanship training on)




There is talk of extending the railway all the way back to Whitehorse, the bed is still there as is some of the track. But talk is cheap and running a railway isn't. for now the Yukon will have to do without.