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unusual facts about North Pacific



Dolly Varden trout

The Dolly Varden trout S. malma is found in coastal waters of the North Pacific from Puget Sound north along the British Columbia coast to the Alaska Peninsula and into the eastern Aleutians, along the Bering Sea and the Arctic Sea to the Mackenzie River.

Rougheye rockfish

Rougheye rockfish are deepwater fish, and exist between 31° and 66° latitude, in the North Pacific, and specifically along the coast of Japan to the Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, to the Aleutian Islands, all the way south to San Diego, California.

Types of volcanic eruptions

A system in the North Pacific, maintained by the United States Navy and originally intended for the detection of submarines, has detected an event on average every 2 to 3 years.


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Cirroteuthis

It is found in cold seas in the boreal Arctic, the north Atlantic Ocean, the north Pacific Ocean and waters off New Zealand.

Cook Inlet

Cook received maps of Alaska, the Aleutians, and Kamchatka during a visit with Russian fur trader Gerasim Izmailov in Unalaska, and combined these maps with those of his expedition to create the first Mercator projection of the North Pacific.

Giant octopus

E. dofleini is the only member of the genus found in the Northern Hemisphere and also the most widely distributed, occurring from San Diego, California along the North Pacific Rim to Japan, including the Okhotsk and Bering Seas.

Harry Clifford Fassett

The ship visited Japan, departing Yokohama on 2 June 1900 to visit Hakodate, Japan, and Kamchatka, north of the Aleutian Islands, and collected biological specimens in the North Pacific and into the Bering Sea and ultimately returned to San Francisco on 30 October 1900 after a cruise of 14 months.

Hubbs' beaked whale

The whale lives in the North Pacific, in the east it is limited to Japan and in the west it ranges from British Columbia to California.

Louis Shotridge

Berman, Judith (2004) "'Some Mysterious Means of Fortune': A Look at North Pacific Coast Oral History." In: Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, ed.

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts is a privately held company based in Surrey, British Columbia which builds 28 to 43 foot recreational trawler motoryachts, which it produces in Ningbo, China.

North Pacific Yachts are built by Ningbo Fuhua Boat Building in Ningbo, China.

Pholidae

Most are restricted to the North Pacific, ranging as far south as Baja California and East China.

Tropical cyclones in 2006

2006 Pacific typhoon season in the north Pacific Ocean, west of the International Date Line

Unimak

Unimak Pass, a passage between the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean