Search results for "North Pacific" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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) - 19:15, 24 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "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) - 21:18, 21 June 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
