Search results for "North Pacific" - New World Encyclopedia
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- that is everywhere equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole. It is ... is on the horizon, rather than its center). North or south of the equator day ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 07:25, 6 September 2023
- America linking the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This navigable sea ... Panama Canal, which shortened the Atlantic Pacific passage by several thousand ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and ... States after those of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. They are located at the meeting point of the ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- way in Southeast Asia until Japan became a Pacific Imperial power. Japan was ... to become the colonial power of the Pacific. Japan noticed that the ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they ... In North America, the two main varieties of clams with respect to ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- It separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest ... crossing of man and mammal from Asia to the North American continent. Its crossing ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- 6, 1808. He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest ... the first United States community on the Pacific coast. He financed the overland ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- in his grandfather's house in Raleigh, North Carolina, the first child ... Latin and Greek at the nearby University of North Carolina. In 1920, his family ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- and the development in the east coast of North America in the seventeenth ... with a range around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- the Edinburgh Quarterly, London Review, and North British Review, dealing in ... Political Economy. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 1410203859 ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- diverse, incorporating regions such as the Pacific Coast, the temperate rainforests ... province of British Columbia, comprise the Pacific Northwest. ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- et al. 2000). The greatest diversity is in North America, with representatives ... length. The hellbender and the mudpuppy in North America can reach the length ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- in focus of British anthropology from Pacific to African cultures. Although ... Seligman’s first contact with anthropology came from his work in ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- between a loganberry, a raspberry, and the Pacific blackberry. It generally ... The boysenberry is believed to be a cross involving the Pacific blackberry ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 22:33, 20 November 2023
- and territories—mostly islands—in the Pacific Ocean. The exact scope of ... with no indigenous population in the North Pacific are sometimes included ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- salmon are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as in the ... upriver to the place of birth. The Pacific salmon, in particular, is ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- for Elizabeth's subjects to settle in North America, where they brought ... skills on the difficult waters of the North Sea, and after the death ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- Panama and captured Spanish ships on the Pacific coast of that isthmus; the ... John Cook (or Cooke). Cook entered the Pacific via Cape Horn and spent ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The term "Polynesia ... in the Solomon Islands and in Vanuatu. The Pacific Islands—except New Zealand ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- of German Samoa, all German islands in the Pacific were administratively part ... of Russia and Romania and westward to North America); and North German ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- studies of marine life of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean aboard the HMS Challenger ... * North American Acalephs, (1865) * Marine Animals of Massachusetts ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- and second overland journey to the Pacific coast, following the 1793 ... considered an expedition to explore the North American continent. When ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Yique (The Gate of the Yi River). From north to south, the distance covered ... and ten deity kings cover the front wall. North and South Binyang Caves flank ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is ... It is best known around the world for Pacific Rim National Park and the ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Wyoming. Combined with the length of the North Platte, the river stretches ... routes of the Pony Express and the Union Pacific Railroad followed the river ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- the time right after metamorphosis, many North American newt species go ... the toxin. Taricha newts of western North America are particularly ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- (10 to 12 million years ago) in the North Pacific, diversifying rapidly ... two genera: Callorhinus in the North Pacific with a single representative ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- is a northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, situated between ... sq km)—is considered one of the richest north temperate marine ecosystems ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- That year he traveled to North America, first to Mexico City, where ... Sierra Gorda Indian Missions some 90 miles north of Santiago de Querétaro ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 14:16, 12 May 2024
- City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest). A number of ... traditions include those of Mount Airy, North Carolina (specifically the ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- " it contains more water than all the North American Great Lakes combined. At ... While known as the "North Sea" in historical Chinese texts ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- of the Japan Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations. ... had developed former wastelands in the north of the Nambu domain, near ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- [[Image:North-Pacific-air-routes.png|thumb|250px|right|Active Aleutian ... hidden wars: secret campaigns on the North Pacific rim. Fairbanks: University ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Honolulu is at the crossroads of trans-Pacific Ocean shipping and ... located between the Ala Wai Canal and the Pacific Ocean next to Diamond Head ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean, about a third of ... 36 of them inhabited, lying along a general north-south line about 800 km in ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- #039;s water surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia (including the Indian ... and from the Pacific by the 147° east meridian. The northernmost ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- (Callorhinus ursinus), inhabits the North Pacific, while the seven species ... from Japan to southern California and north to the Bering Sea, during ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- shaped by its evolving relationship with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan ... consultations with the United States on North Korea policy. ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- blue spruce (P. pungens) is very popular in North America as an ornamental ... Native Americans in eastern North America once used the thin, pliable ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- and sits in a strategic position in the Pacific Ocean roughly midway between ... trending northwest by southeast in the North Pacific Ocean between latitudes ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- her son, Lloyd, he went into the mountains north of San Francisco in Napa ... == Journey to the Pacific == For the next seven years, between 1880 ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- today, perhaps as mild as the modern-day Pacific Northwest. Warm temperate ... to freeze, sending cold water and icefloes north, reinforcing the cooling. ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ... (Keogh 2004). They also are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Sea kraits ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- the Sea of Okhotsk on the west from the North Pacific Ocean on the east. The ... are among the most productive in the North Pacific, supporting a wide range ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- surface that is equidistant from both the North Pole and South Poles and ... *The North Frigid Zone, north of the Arctic Circle *The North Temperate ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- ***** Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens ... ***** Baird's beaked whale (North Pacific bottlenose whale), ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- Siberia and French and English expansion in North America. In recent centuries ... discovery of large populations in the North Pacific was the major economic ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- fourth in the world. Located in the central North Island of New Zealand, the ... miles (796 sq km) in the heart of the North Island of New Zealand. It ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 03:58, 1 May 2023
