Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Call Center in Whitehorse

Welcome to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive CentreImagine a world Imagine a world where the vast steppe stretches unbroken as far as the eye can see. Envision a place where predators of staggering proportions compete with human hunters for food. During each Ice Age, vast glaciers formed in the Northern Hemisphere, locking up much of the worlds water as ice. Global sea levels dropped as much as 100 - 150 metres as a result, revealing the floor of the Bering Sea and creating a land connection between Alaska and Siberia (shown by the area in green). We may think that our climate today is typical but over the past 2 million years, the climate of the northern hemisphere has been dominated by huge ice sheets. We live in unusual times. Explore the treasures of that world within the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and watch Beringia come alive. Picture a land where the animals and plants struggle to survive in the cold, dry treeless expanse. This land bridge was part of a larger unglaciated area called Beringia.Glaciers never formed in Beringia because the climate was too dry.