As part of this horse-trading, the Russians agreed almost as an afterthought to move the long north-south boundary westward two degrees of longitude to the 141st meridian. It seemed relatively unimportant at the time, but by coincidence, the 139th meridian runs smack through the course of a little stream that would later be called the Klondike. Great Britain also got navigation rights on the rivers flowing through the narrow southeast strip and its desired trading rights, the issue it considered most important at the time.
