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unusual facts about Northwestern Pacific



Bering wolffish

Although insufficiently documented, it is also known to occur across the Northwestern Pacific, the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean.

Marine weather forecasting

These stations observe ocean waves, tide levels, sea surface temperature and ocean current etc. in the Northwestern Pacific basin, as well as the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk basin, and provide marine meteorological forecasts resulted from them, in cooperation with the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard.


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Broadfin sawtail catshark

The broadfin sawtail catshark is found in the northwestern Pacific from Sagami Bay off southeastern Honshu, Japan to the East China Sea, including the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge.

H. japonicus

Hypomesus japonicus, the Japanese smelt, a coastal fish species of the northwestern Pacific ocean

Horn Rapids Dam

When the company went under in 1896, the dam was bought by the Northwestern Pacific Company (a subsidiary of Northern Pacific).

Japanese angelshark

The Japanese angelshark is native to the cooler waters of the northwestern Pacific; its range extends from the eastern coast of Honshu, Japan to Taiwan, and includes the southern Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.

North Coast Railroad

North Pacific Coast Railroad, predecessor of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in California

Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was featured in films, used from backgrounds to on-board filming, most notably is Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, which was filmed in downtown Santa Rosa, California in the summer of 1942, using the stone depot and railroad yard as a background.

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit, a planned commuter line using the Northwestern Pacific's former right-of-way

Yutu

Typhoon Yutu, name of several tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean