Search results for "Pacific Northwest" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • study of nuclear waste disposal at Pacific Northwest National Labs.]] ... contamination. According to the Pacific Northwest National Labs, "Vitrification ...
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  • The Kwakiutl, of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, are the main group ... was held by native tribes on the Pacific Northwest coast of the United ...
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  • scuttled his hopes to search instead for a Northwest Passage. ... the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, into the Pacific, and then to the Far East ...
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  • elk) that are native only to the Pacific Northwest coast. Because of this ... Most, if not all, Pacific Northwest indigenous cultures were more ...
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  • province of British Columbia, comprise the Pacific Northwest. ... tributary, the Snake River, water the Pacific Northwest. The Platte runs through ...
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  • area stretching from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean, and was given by ... lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest. ...
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  • Salmo (Atlantic trouts), and Oncorhynchus (Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon). ... genus Oncorhynchus are known as the "Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon ...
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  • intermountain regions of the U.S. The Pacific Northwest states, on the other ... southern and eastern regions of the Pacific Northwest. Below-average precipitation ...
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  • * Section Piceaster (southern Spain, northwest Africa) **Abies pinsapo ... * Section Amabilis (Pacific coast mountains, North America and Japan ...
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  • Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast between 1791 and 1794. ... Vancouver Island and throughout the Pacific Northwest. The trunks of the ...
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  • thumb|350px|Over millions of years, the Pacific Plate has moved over the ... in the Columbia Plateau of the US Pacific Northwest. The Deccan Traps of ...
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  • of Indigenous cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America ... In the early 1990s, the Haisla First Nation of the Pacific Northwest ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • America linking the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This navigable sea ... Panama Canal, which shortened the Atlantic Pacific passage by several thousand ...
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  • The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. One of the most important ...
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  • had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near ... way in Southeast Asia until Japan became a Pacific Imperial power. Japan was ...
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  • (40 to 240 km) in width, it separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California ... as the Sea of Cortez) on its west from the Pacific Ocean on its south and east ...
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  • The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that ... the interior Alaska Indians and the Pacific Northwest coast Indians. ...
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  • Ocean, and other areas flow into the Pacific, Arctic, and so forth. ... 47 percent of all land in the world. The Pacific Ocean drains just over 13 ...
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  • with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. During the two-year ... heard numerous plans to explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson ...
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