Search results for "North Pacific" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- * islands of the South Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, ... Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- Harbor and U.S. submarines in the Western Pacific. Kilgour received the Legion ... professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill& ...14 KB (2,025 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2022
- Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly ... migrated east toward the Society Islands, north towards Hawaii, and southwest ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:51, 6 September 2022
- within the Arctic Circle and includes the North Pole region. Extending south ... bridge that joined Siberia to northwestern North America (Alaska). ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- distributed in both the Americas (North, Central, and South America ... Peninsula, Belize and Guatemala. Along the Pacific coastal plane and lower ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- the Volontaires à cheval, he patrolled the north shore of the St. Lawrence ... off Montreal for the last French stand in North America before the general ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- of poetry and stories from the indigenous North American peoples, whose culture ... States (1946) and The Indian Tribes of North America (1952). He retired ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- Great Basin tribes, extends further to the north and east than the hydrographic ... San Joaquin and Klamath rivers, on the north by the watershed of the Columbia ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- Cape Horn from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean dropped greatly when ... Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey ... horseshoe-shaped zone called the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known ...23 KB (2,982 words) - 17:36, 12 February 2024
- northern Africa and the Middle East), Asia-Pacific (includes Australia and ... South Atlantic, is part of the Europe and North America region since it was ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- The range stretches 400 miles (650 km) north to south and is part of the ... miles (650 km), from Fredonyer Pass in the north to Tehachapi Pass in the ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains ... age would include the Tetons and the other north-central ranges. ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- Niue is a small island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. ... during low tide, six miles (9.5 km) from north to south and nearly five ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 02:29, 16 November 2022
- a number of Indigenous cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North ... The beginning of totem pole construction started in North America ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- Indian Ocean, the South Pacific, the North Pacific, and the Antarctic Ocean ... stretched, in a contiguous line, from the North to the Gold Coast except ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- include Greenland and Sable Island off North America; Barbados and Trinidad ... of the same materials as the adjacent North American continent, from ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- consisting of many countries in the Pacific Ocean, including those in ... territories include sub-Antarctic islands north of 60°S. ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- similar in construction and layout sit north and south of that one, along ... either side of the axis, known as the "north and south" palaces or ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches from the Canadian province of British ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- 300,000 to 360,000 years ago the entire north side of the volcano collapsed ... miles (11 kilometers) south and three miles north of the area now occupied ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- Korea in 1910 and to World War II in the Pacific. We will consider the events ... Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Pacific Islands, and East Asia. ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- The Redwood National and State Parks stretch along the northern Pacific ... in the park and offshore under the Pacific Ocean have resulted in shifting ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- of the United States, located in the South Pacific Ocean southeast of the sovereign ... American Samoa is a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, located ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean (which ... of the world center of commerce to the Pacific basin in the twenty-first ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian 370 leagues ... island of Samar, which is just west of due north of the Moluccas. ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- December 10, 2020. On April 15, 2019, North Dakota became the first Western ... On April 15, 2019, North Dakota became the fourth state, and first ...16 KB (2,205 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- during World War II as the South West Pacific headquarters for General ... in one of three dams; Wivenhoe, Somerset, and North Pine. ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- is the seat of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, formed by Australia ... Located in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific Ocean, approximately ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- most well-known of all the butterflies in North America, although the species ... worldwide, but only four are found in North America—the monarch butterfly ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
