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The Columbia River ( Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. [11] The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
Date. May–June 1948. Location. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana in the United States and British Columbia, Canada [1] Deaths. 16–102 [2] Property damage. $102.7 million ($1.2 billion in 2021) [1] [3] The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and ...
Test average. SAT: 1230 ACT: 29. Budget. $18,066 per pupil expenditure (2022–2023) Website. river .vansd .org. Columbia River High School is a public high school in Vancouver, Washington, United States. It is part of the Vancouver Public Schools system and opened in 1962. Columbia River has over 1,200 students. [2]
— Washington State Ferries (@wsferries) May 10, 2024 According to WSF, these are the ferry times that should be avoided due to low tide: May 10: 11:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. (-3.0 feet)
Columbia Bar. Coordinates: 124°02′W. Bathymetric. The Columbia Bar is a system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River spanning the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It is one of the most dangerous bar crossings in the world, earning the nickname Graveyard of the Pacific. The bar is about 3 miles (5 km) wide and 6 miles (10 ...
A bore in Morecambe Bay, in the United Kingdom Video of the Arnside Bore, in the United Kingdom The tidal bore in Upper Cook Inlet, in Alaska. A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current.
The Strait of Georgia ( French: Détroit de Géorgie) or the Georgia Strait [3] is an arm of the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, and the extreme northwestern mainland coast of Washington, United States. It is approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) long and varies in ...
Each day, tides force large amounts of seawater through the narrows—760,000,000 m 3 (200 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water on a 3 m (9.8 ft) tide. The difference in water levels on either side of the rapids can exceed 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height. Current speeds can exceed 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph), up to 17.68 kn (32.74 km/h; 20.35 mph).