Search results for "Pacific Northwest" - New World Encyclopedia
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- States after those of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. ... Mackinac Straits, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- Atlantic halibut (H. hippoglossus) and the Pacific halibut (H. stenolepis) ... and as far south as the Bay of Biscay. The Pacific halibut is found on the ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- River, its longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California ... significant links to the tribes of the Northwest Coast. However, they did ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- 1994). They are found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. ... *Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus *Greenland cod, Gadus ogac ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- also the first navigator to cross the vast Pacific Ocean, nearly four times ... Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513, and Juan ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- #039;s Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest. The California Gold ... * Orr, Elizabeth L., and William N. Orr. Geology of the Pacific Northwest ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest of what is now the ... of his staff were former employees of the Northwest Company, known as Nor& ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... Hawaii, and the North American Pacific Northwest). On his first voyage ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Northwestern United States and the Pacific Northwest region of North America ... The course of political history in the Pacific Northwest saw the spine ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Roman Catholic and was raised in the Pacific northwest. His parents were divorced ... with Brautigan on bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Another lyrical interpretation ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- perhaps as mild as the modern-day Pacific Northwest. Warm temperate forests ... rainforests grew as far north as the Pacific Northwest and Europe. ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- :* Picea neoveitchii Veitch's Spruce. Northwest China (rare, ... :* Picea chihuahuana Chihuahua Spruce. Northwest Mexico (rare). ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The capital is Papeete ... A book of selected readings. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest). A number of American classical composers, in particular Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- and sits in a strategic position in the Pacific Ocean roughly midway between ... islets, and undersea seamounts trending northwest by southeast in the North ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located about 50 miles (80 km) east-southeast of the ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Mount Rainier were inhabited by many Pacific Northwest Native American tribes ... It is a natural setting of the Pacific Northwest region. Things to be ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Construction of ... chiefly two facilities at the Atlantic and Pacific outlets), which was won ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
