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- portions of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Tasman was one ... of an exploring expedition in the north Pacific. His fleet included the ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- of all subtropical regions of the North Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, ... researchers generally agree that the North Pacific albacore population is ...9 KB (1,355 words) - 17:46, 19 December 2022
- Salmo (Atlantic trouts), and Oncorhynchus (Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon). ... genus Oncorhynchus are known as the "Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon ...11 KB (1,552 words) - 17:10, 5 November 2022
- (Cedrus). Firs are found through much of North and Central America, Europe ... * Section Balsamea (Taiga|boreal Asia and North America, and high ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- hangs off eastern Siberia along a general north-south axis, Florida-like ... running nearly 700 kilometers from south to north, creating what's called ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus, one is in the Pacific, Odobenus r. divergens, ... out of the water. Divergens (the Pacific subspecies) in Latin means ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Oahu’s North Shore is famed for big wave surfing during the winter ... i]]) on February 14, as he was leaving the islands for the North Pacific. ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically ... as the Sea of Cortez) on its west from the Pacific Ocean on its south and east ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- and the rarest whale in the world, the North Pacific Right Whale. Other marine ... the Arctic Ocean to the north and the North Pacific Ocean to the south influence ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- #039;s largest tectonic plates such as the North American Plate are in motion ... The spreading rate of the north Atlantic Ocean is about 25 mm/yr, ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 17:32, 9 November 2022
- of the most important European explorers of North America ... just 577 nautical miles south of the North Pole and discovered what ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- west by barren hills and mountains on the Pacific coast, it extends east into ... miles long. The average width, from the Pacific Ocean on the west, to the ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has ... This represented one-fifth of the North American continent. His great ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- is divided into three basic regions: the Pacific coastline, the Olympic Mountains ... a land of contrast and variety. There are Pacific Ocean beaches, rainforest ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- east. The equator divides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific ... in the Northern Hemisphere (the North Pacific Gyre) and counter-clockwise ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Sweet potatoes became popular very early on in the islands of the ... part of their peoples' diets. North and South America, the original ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- uses of the term keep this meaning, but in North American geographical usage ... Ocean, and other areas flow into the Pacific, Arctic, and so forth. ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- found on the continental shelf of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering sea. ... The Pacific halibut is found on the continental shelf of the North ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Ocean signatures, El Niño ... htm El Niño climate pattern forms in Pacific Ocean.] USA Today. Retrieved ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- The Complex of Goguryeo Tombs lies in North Korea. In July 2004, UNESCO ... rare glimpse into the national treasures of North Korea and offers a foretaste ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- loo) is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii ... spread out over 350 miles (560 kilometers), north to south, has a total land ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
