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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
- the world's five oceans – Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern ... are (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- having deep arched recesses on the east and north and a staircase leading to ... used to flow along its fortification on the north. Akbar also built Doulat ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- or the tuna fishery of the Eastern Pacific. Most fisheries are marine ... and S. J. Harley. 2005. Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- tributary of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... Wilderness, the deepest river gorge in North America. Nearly 70 miles ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- Heyerdahls's voyages across the Atlantic and across the Pacific ... traveled with the wind along the North Pacific current. These migrants ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- Esquimalt, the Canadian military’s main Pacific naval base. ... 1862. In 1865, Esquimalt was made the North Pacific home of the Royal Navy ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- widely distributed in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, and South America ... major animals hunted and trapped for fur in North America after European settlement ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... the only year-round lift-served skiing in North America. ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... thirds of the population lives on Koror. North of these islands is the coral ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- Oregon Country, a region of northwestern North America known also from the ... which consisted of what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- the Trobianders: Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), The Sexual Life ... in his 1922 Argonauts of the Western Pacific. The word Kula is derived ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- surround most of the wall. The wall at its north-eastern corner sits adjacent ... a large open space then crosses the large north-south street that originally ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 02:24, 8 December 2022
- The expansionists believed that the North American continent, from ... Mexican-controlled California, and went north to Oregon, finding camp at ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- of Russia and Romania and westward to North America); and North German ... === Pacific === *German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea, today Papua ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- and green anacondas can be found as far north as Trinidad, the southernmost ... Snakes of the subfamily Boinae are found in Madagascar, Papua, Pacific ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- with the central Asian steppes to the north and east. On its eastern ... almost 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) from north to south, with an average ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the ... *Architeuthis martensi, "North Pacific giant squid" ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- the Thunnus genus (family Scombridae): the Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis ... largely in temperate waters in the North Pacific but their range also ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- Chevron originated as the Pacific Coast Oil Company, founded in 1879 ... Pico Canyon (now the Pico Canyon Oilfield) north of Los Angeles. This find ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- River, its longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California ... of Klamath, at the reservation's north end. Despite the dark period ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- cold winters. The Taiga is bordered on the north by the largely treeless tundra ... to the south of the taiga, such as in the Pacific Northwest of North America ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is ... of a mix of Europeans, Asians, and other Pacific islanders. A few of the ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along the Pacific Ocean in west-central California; ... pressure system that forms over the north Pacific Ocean. The high pressure ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- in the northern regions of China and in North Korea. At the end of the ... scholars argue that Korea, especially North Korea, has claim to the area ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, in order ... especially after its merger with the North West Company in 1821. ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, formerly ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- In any case, artifacts have been found in both North and South America ... When the Europeans arrived, many natives of North America were semi ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- occupation of the peninsula by the invading North Korean People's Army ... the war began. MacArthur thought that the North Korean army would push the ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- In addition, North American native peoples provide one of the most ... * Malin, Edward. Totem poles of the Pacific Northwest coast. Portland ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast ... borders both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean with a total of ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- of the Spanish empire in the Caribbean and Pacific. Only 113 days after the ... only a few scattered possessions in the Pacific Ocean, Africa, and the West ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho ... The Canadian Pacific Railway was instrumental in Banff's early ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- He volunteered for the Canadian Army Pacific Force (CAPF), granted a ... In 2004, Berton published his 50th book, Prisoners of the North, after ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- *Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Primitive history. Arkose Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1344040174 ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- miles (1,500 km). The Santa Cruz Islands, north of Vanuatu, (of which Tikopia ... added to the protectorate; in 1900, the North Solomon Islands, was transferred ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- located in East Asia at approximately 37° North, 127° 30 East, on the southern ... of the peninsula, Korea Bay sits to the north and the Yellow Sea to the ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- trains is held by an LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive of the LNER in ... only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- Hanoi and about 1100 kilometers (690 miles) north of Hồ Chí Minh City, the ... established in Hà Nội (Hanoi), in the north. The rule of the last Vietnamese ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ... [[Image:La-map.png|thumb|right|220px|Luang Prabang sits just north ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- disturbing the balance of power between North and South in the Senate, ... by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to the Pacific Coast. ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- to the Netherlands by a cable across the North Sea, from Orford Ness to ... The transatlantic cable bridged North America and Europe, and expedited ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- basin, it is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf ... an indentation in the southeastern coast of North America, served as an avenue ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... (523,865 km²) and a width between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- to expand Spanish rule over huge tracts of North America. He and his companions ... survivor Estevanico on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ... and abruptly ends in Hillcrest to the north. The Coronado and Point ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- Shandong (including Jiaozhou Bay) and the Pacific islands north of the Equator ... assumed it would stretch from the Hejaz north, including the Ottoman province ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- the United States would not intervene if North Korea were to attack South ... B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- For example, in the Middle East and North Africa, it has become fairly ... pdf Desalination, with a Grain of Salt] - Pacific Institute. Retrieved October ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- Pole Ocean or Antarctic Ocean) and the North Pacific Ocean. They are generally ... , the mollymawks (Thalassarche), the North Pacific albatrosses (Phoebastria ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- New Zealand is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific ... Rica's. The two main islands are named North and South islands in English ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- * Ely, Richard T. 1886. "Socialism in America" in The North ... * Ely, Richard T. 1889. "The Telegraph Monopoly" in The ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan ... the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The two species probably diverged in the North Pacific, as the white ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- is called "sycamore maple" in North America, or "plane" ... Platanus is a genus of trees of North America known as sycamores. ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- Tokelau is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific ... The three atolls are located in the South Pacific Ocean approximately midway ...17 KB (2,411 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ... Archipelago off the northwest coast of North America. The locally reliable ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- coyotes, and bobcats. The fisher (a North American marten) is particularly ... temperate parts of Asia, Italy, Africa and North and South America. Porcupines ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 04:07, 26 November 2022
- east of the Pacific Ocean. The collapse of the 12000|ft|m ... of pollutants, are some of the purest in North America. The lake is 5 by ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- Tsunami occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean, but are a global ... of the United States, which is prone to Pacific Ocean tsunami, warning signs ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- The War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War in reference ... The War of the Pacific grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- Since Neolithic times, the climate of North Africa has become drier ... Natives of arctic North America (in northern Canada, Alaska and indigenous ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... and low pressure systems of the north Pacific Ocean, the continental ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- passing by the British Parliament of the North American Act. Initially, ... Canada bought Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II. ... of Tokyo, 1,300 km (702 nautical miles) north of Guam and approximately ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- is a transcontinental nation which connects North and South America. It borders ... both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Ocean, hurricanes from the Central North Pacific sometimes cross the International ... or less occurred in the Western North Pacific Ocean. The strongest ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located on the Pacific coast south of Washington and north of California ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- considered as continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica ... the 48 contiguous United States in central North America and may include Alaska ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Rímac, and Lurín Rivers, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and forms a contiguous ... city slopes gently from the shores of the Pacific Ocean into valleys and mountain ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, and North Battleford. The province ... quot; of the federal government's new North-West Mounted Police (who ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- density of polar bear dens as well as Pacific walrus population in the ... existence of an island or continent to the north was lent credence by the ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- ponds, and large streams in South America, North America, and Europe, they ... there. They are common in Europe and North America. The Eurasian coot ...13 KB (2,016 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- continually shifted eastwards, until the Pacific Ocean was reached, the region ... and Muslim cultures to the East and in North Africa. During the Middle ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- at a strategic location in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 ... island located 80 miles (120 kilometers) north of Saipan Island and 200 ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Between those rows of the main temple, on north and south side, stand two ... that bears the carving of Naga serpents on north side of pedestal. The other ...15 KB (2,259 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The country's ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- with cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, into more frequent contact ... ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, advocated obtaining "the ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- a unique laughing call. They are found in North America and northern Eurasia ... then abruptly plunging into the water. The North American name "loon ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Unlike other cultural centers of North India, the temples of Khajuraho ... amalaka, a circular ring motif common in North Indian temple architecture ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- occur in both the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, which is also home ... Euphausiacea (Crustacea) of the North Pacific.] Bulletin of the Scripps ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized ... The Mariana island chain was created as a result of the Pacific and ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- east (日坛), the Temple of Earth in the north (地坛), and the Temple ... taiji bailong ball is known as Rythmball in North America. ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- from the strait to the Manzaneros in the north-west with a band of Tehuelches ... experience of the pilgrims who arrived in North America at Plymouth, the ...22 KB (3,265 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- Japan fought the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific wars (which, however, can ... for Japan to maintain hegemony in the Pacific. In 1924, however, relations ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... long dominated the economy and culture of North Dakota. ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational ... to solo the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca ... bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north and shares borders with Guatemala ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- was a land, sea, and air battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II ... The Guadalcanal campaign was pivotal in the Pacific theater of operations ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island ... Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming ... The expedition continued to explore the north coast of South America, until ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ... According to most eyewitness accounts, the sasquatch of the Pacific ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- century, parts of the mainlands of North and South America. ... de Balboa to all lands touching the Pacific Ocean, the Spanish rapidly ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- to catch small fish. Kangaroo rats of North America (Dipodomys species ... Among the largest rat species are the muskrat of North America (Ondatra ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 06:43, 17 July 2022
- New England whalers began arriving in the coastal waters north of ... *Webber, Bert. Wrecked Japanese Junks Adrift in the North Pacific ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- #039;, 'Kotata Berry', 'Pacific', and 'Cascade ... In some parts of the world, such as in Chile, New Zealand and the ...19 KB (2,739 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- several front-line fighter units from Pacific war zones for homeland defense ... as commander of the 12th Air Force in North Africa, for which he was ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- south-central part of the state, two miles north of Utah, and is bounded by ... east by the Raft River valley and to the north by the Snake River valley ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... main river systems: the Toutle River on the north and north-west, the Kalama ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- From North America down to South America there are approximately four ... **Pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 (West Pacific ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east ... one million Koreans live in Jilin. Since North Korea's severe food ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- as la intervención norteamericana (the North American Intervention), was ... a continental nation stretching to the Pacific was fed by public confidence ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Ocean from the waters in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. In essence, only ... waters to the south and the warmer waters to the north. ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- around Terrace and Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia ... Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast. Seattle, WA: University ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- warfare conducted by Germany in the North Atlantic, he caused Germany ... May 19, 1943, when his boat was sunk in the North Atlantic with the loss of ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2022
- Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (something explorers ... Alaska on the Alaska Territory's Pacific coast. Five hundred miles ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- Sydney is in a coastal basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the ... a sandstone plateau lying mainly to the north of the harbor, dissected ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- The sweat lodge is a ceremonial sauna used by a number of North American ... *Clark, Ella E. 2003. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley ...11 KB (1,808 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- Cook during his third expedition to the Pacific, that led the group to Hawaii ... the Polynesians from Asia to the eastern pacific around 2000 B.C.E. The first ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- Part of the Rocky Mountains, the north-south-trending Teton Range ... of the Teton Wilderness a short distance north in Yellowstone National Park ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- as "bent-toed gecko," found in north-western Pakistan. ... * Indo-Pacific gecko, Hemidactylus garnotii — Also known as a fox ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans with strong cultural ... an increasingly important role in the Asia-Pacific. Within Oceania itself, ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana ... the oil sands are in the sparsely populated north; about 80 percent of the ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- E.) founded Kandy near the Watapuluwa area, north of the present city. He named ... On the north shore of the lake, enclosed by a parapet of white stone ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation ... last few million years and both bounded by north-south-trending mountain ranges ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... New Guinea is a large island located north of Australia, and south ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- "crayfish" is more common in the north, while "crawdad" ... live in western Eurasia and western North America, and members of the ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- while Beijing municipality lies to its north and the Bohai Bay in the ... are located on the Bohai Gulf in the Pacific Ocean. It serves a vital ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- are Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia ... made the remainder of their journey to the Pacific in boats, they entrusted ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- *Pacific Gull, Larus pacificus *Belcher's Gull, Larus belcheri ... Image:herring.gull.northdevon.arp.750pix.jpg|Herring Gull on the North ...12 KB (1,696 words) - 04:38, 7 December 2021
- South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south ... regions, plus an insular region in the Pacific Ocean: *La Costa, or ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- time. It was during his service in the Pacific theater of operations that ... Kunta Kinte was transported from Africa to North America in 1767. ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- coast and the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have significant ... In North America two types of longhouse were developed: The Native ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- businesses—namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through ... | North Carolina, Tennessee |- | Guadalupe Mountains National Park ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- in the Indus river valley in Pakistan and north-west India. "Harappan ... far west as the Iranian border, and as far north as the Himalayas. Harappa ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- a spectacular backdrop to the city. North of the city, a fertile and ... Russians (9.0 percent) concentrated in the north and Uzbeks (14.5 percent ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- charting previously unknown (to Europeans) Pacific islands did make a significant ... Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific. He reached England again ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943, in the Pacific theater of World War II ... Allied forces over Japanese forces in the Pacific theater. For this reason ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- * Daniels, Randolph. Trains Across the Continent: North American Railroad ... * Rhodes, Michael. North American Railyards. MBI, 2003. ISBN 978-0760315781 ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- in Spanish, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile ... to that of the Chilean city of Caldera, north of Santiago, Chile. The island ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- Papua New Guinea is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in ... Zealand, eastern Indonesia, and several Pacific island groups, including ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- ===1904 to 1930: Early life and expeditions in New Guinea and Pacific ... of New Guinea's five most important north coastal mountains. In the ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- result of its scenic location between the Pacific Ocean and B.C.'s coastal ... exports more cargo than any other port in North America. ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- Bulgaria and Romania. The Mississippi in North America, and the Rhine in ... schoolchildren and college students in North America, is that most—or ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- had a mission to expand westward across the North American continent, spreading ... expansion of the United States across North America. The phrase was ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- and northern Mexico and some areas of the Pacific Coast. The eruption left ... breathtaking and awe-inspiring locations in North America. Yellowstone can ...33 KB (5,106 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- Seattle is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific ... World War II for troops heading to the North Pacific, and Boeing manufactured ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- ranch, Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California ... a fellow student at the College of the Pacific, in September 1942. They ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, are an Arctic ... their wild counterparts. The caribou of North America can run at speeds ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the ... entire western part of what would become North America starting about 70 ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- in eastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and north-eastern Utah. The Eastern ... States, traveling thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean. ...26 KB (4,027 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- Nevada is broken up by many north-south mountain ranges. Most of these ... Monsoon will cause summer thunderstorms; Pacific storms may blanket the area ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- (Southwestern United States) or raven (Pacific Northwest, coastal British ... In the Pacific Northwest tradition, Coyote is mostly mentioned as ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- wedged between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It encompasses a ... stretches over 2,880 miles (4,630 km) north to south, but averages only ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor ... Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Japan envisioned in the Pacific. ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- thirds of the delegate votes. Many in the North were also upset with the ... #039; simply be extended west to the Pacific. This was voted down 89 ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone ... On the north side of this hall in the Red Palace is the holiest shrine ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India and start a ... 1941-1991. University Press of the Pacific, 2002. * Schofield, Victoria ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, ... Fiji is a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific Ocean, lying ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- on the specific time when the modern north Indian languages such as ... as with all of the Prakrits of North India, began to give way ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
