Translation of "Ligne de partage des vents " (French → English) :

wind divide

wind divide

continental divide | Great Divide

Great Divide [ Continental Divide ]

divide | water parting | watershed

wind-shift line [ wind shift line | windshift line ]

divide | drainage divide | catchment divide | watershed

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 le ...[+++]ft 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.

Thence generally southeasterly and northwesterly following the last aforesaid height of land to a point on the summit of the westerly extension of Sunset Peak, on the summit of which peak is situated Triangulation Station No. 33 (Lambert 1927), a record in said field book, the last aforesaid point being at the intersection of the last aforesaid height of land and a straight line on an azimuth of 329°28.8′ from a stone cairn on the crest of the height of land forming the southerly limit of the watershed area of Blue Lake, as the last aforesaid cairn is shown on plan 38704 in said Records;

Thence in a general westerly direction along the last aforesaid height of land to its point of intersection with a straight line on an azimuth of 45° from Triangulation Station No. 5 (Lambert 1927), of record in field book number 21691 in said Records, which is a point on the height of land dividing the watershed area of Rock Creek from that of Mowitch Creek;

Thence southerly and westerly along the easterly and southerly limits of the watershed of La Forme Creek to and along the southerly limit of the watershed of Martha Creek to the north boundary of Section 13, Township 25, Range 2, West of the 6th Meridian;