Pacific Railway Acts

shelter. The pacific ocean is a big part of the geography as it makes the people need good transportation on water. On the coast there are lots archipelagos and steep rocky cliffs. There are lots of rivers for the Haida to collect water from, but the most important part of the rivers were the salmon run that came every year. The Haida people have been living on Haida Gwaii for over six thousand…

The SFD makes sure the policy objectives of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council are implemented properly and manages fishery in a zone that is very specific to Alaska. They work with the state of Alaska to manage and develop fishing policies and data collections programs which are important to persevering the International Pacific, Halibut Commission. The SFD also keeps track of the number of fish caught by private, commercial, and other…

In the video, Plastic Oceans it mentioned facts about water that I was surprised about. For example, microplastics can be mistaken for fish by the sea water chicks, the plastics then stay in their body, and the birds don't know any better, so they keep eating the microplastics. The microplastics add up over time and eventually kill them. Not many chicks make it to adulthood because of the pollution. Water pollution is not only affecting birds. About 3.5 million pieces of new plastic enter the…

Overview Bora Bora, French Polynesia, a small island northwest of Tahiti, is a beautiful vacation spot with the right amount of peace, relaxation and amusement. “Bora Bora, the land of coral beaches, pink ginger and tropical perfumes will be the bit of paradise you return to in your dreams, time after time”(Williams 15+). When traveling in Bora Bora, people can go around the whole island in only one day. Bora Bora is known as the best island around. It is also known as the most romantic…

idea that “He who holds Alaska will hold the world,” became popular during the Second World War and focused attention on a little known theater of that war. Alaska was a gateway for both the United States and Canada to the Pacific. Though the United States already had the Pacific coastline with Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington, Alaska was strategically useful for trade, resources, and even possibly war. While some American decision-makers found strategic value in the Aleutian Islands…

danger of extinction in the near future throughout most or all of the world. Threatened means any species likely to become an endangered species in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of its range as defined in the Endangered Species Act. Blue whales are mainly found in open oceans from the icy waters of the very near Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska in the Northern Hemisphere. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production…

Feher and Tirdea assert depending on the size of the pieces it can look like a clear plastic soup. Le Guem adds sea vortex areas are fluid and their size and shape change. Le Guem reports that the largest area in the North Pacific is estimated to have attracted 3.5 million tons of debris and covers an area twice as large as the United States. Feher and Tirdea thinks there are five other large swirls in our oceans where waste is also crowded, including one in the Atlantic. Pek…

December 27th the crew recorded seeing their first icebergs and whales and on New Year’s Day 1841, they crossed into the Arctic Circle. Not long after they began their battle with the sea ice, it was recorded in notes that Ross’s compass continued to act strangely the closer the ships got to the pole. The ships continued on through the Ross Sea until Ross due to conditions and time constraints decided to call off the voyage until next season. With a similar outcome the following year, the voyage…

Chile covers 756,950 square kilometers of land (292,258 square miles). It never gets wider than 240km (150 miles), but it is over 2,800 miles long. It is almost twice the size of California. Chile also includes two islands: Juan Fernandez Islands and Easter Island. More than 17.8 million people live in Chile. Santiago, the capital city, has a population of 308,000, but when counting Santiago Metropolis 6.68 million people live in that area. This is the largest city. The next on the list is the…

Salvation speech Hawaii a place that used to be referred to as "paradise" has now been converted into "hell". We live in post apocalyptic Hawaii, where supplies are decreasing very quick. A big corporation supervises the production of kelp which has contracted a disease. We can no longer consume kelp. We live in the year 2300 where there is plenty of advanced technologies, so we expect a cure and medical attention for those who are sick. Scientists here are trying to figure out a solution but…