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Alaska boundary dispute

1867–1903 territorial dispute between the US and UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the British Empire over the Canada–United States border regarding Alaska between the 1890s and 1900s. As Canada was then a British dominion, the United Kingdom held the responsibility of negotiating with the American government over the dispute, which had existed since 1825 between Britain and Russia. Following the United States' acquisition of Alaska from Russia in 1867, the Canada–Alaska border continued to be disputed, which intensified following the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon.

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The public source identifies “Alaska boundary dispute” as 1867–1903 territorial dispute between the US and UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alaska, boundary and dispute.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alaska boundary dispute” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.