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From the Mexican border to Canada the 1,3oo miles of Pacific coastline<br >offer only seven natural harbors-Long Beach, San Diego, Monterey,<br >San Francisco, and Eureka, California, and Willapa Bay and Grays<br >Harbor, Washington. But the meagerness of shelter does not gravely<br >affect shipping, for the Pacific Ocean in those latitudes lives up to its<br >name. From the Canadian border north, however, coastal piloting is a<br >different matter.<br > Under prevailing westerly winds, stormy North Pacific waters off the<br >coast of Japan push up great rollers that march in stately procession,<br >building in size and power, across 4,000 miles of open sea to crash on the<br >northwesterly coast of North America.<br > Precisely on that wild coast, 4~ million years ago nature came to the<br >rescue of mariners-to-be. A land mass called Cascadia then stood west of<br >where the present mainland stands. In a gigantic convulsion it sank<br >beneath the sea, leaving exposed only its mountaintops as Vancouver<br >Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands and the other barrier islands that<br >stand between rollers from Japan and the mainland. The sheltered<br >channel inside the barrier islands threads x,ooo miles northward from the<br >Washington shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca through British<br >Columbia and Alaska to Skagway.<br >
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Inside Passage pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024