* Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, Spitsbergen at 80 degrees north, contains two of earth's most northerly hot springs.

One customer of the KSR2, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility, purchased an enormous number of spare parts, and kept their machines running for years after the demise of KSR.

* The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest Name, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

* Title: Advances in Microfluidics, Editor: Dr. Ryan kelly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

Dr. Caleb B. R. Kennerly, surgeon and naturalist, collected a wolf specimen on Lopez Island which is in the National Museum of Natural History, probably collected during the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1857-1861.

While most of the current activity at the site is related to the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory.

* Pacific Northwest: based in Portland, Oregon the Pacific Northwest Region ( R6 ) covers two states ( Washington and Oregon ), twenty-one National Forests and one National Scenic Area.

" Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a major national laboratory in Richland

Offering a wide range of programs, the campus focuses heavily on biotechnology, computer science, and engineering, due to the nearby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Hanford site.

* Battelle Memorial Institute ( operates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science )

* Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ) website

Today the JGI's partner laboratories include Berkeley Lab, LLNL, LANL, as well as Oak Ridge ( ORNL ), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ), and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology ( formerly associated with the Stanford Human Genome Center ).

* Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League.

They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

* " Gate to the Northwest Passage "; a commemorative statue by Vancouver artist Alan Chung Hung was commissioned by Parks Canada and installed at the mouth of False Creek in Vanier Park near the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1980.

Northwest of Frazier Park, the fault runs through the Carrizo Plain, a long, treeless plain within which much of the fault is plainly visible.

They are located in Cedar Park, Texas ( Northwest of Austin ).

There are several Canadian National Parks in the Pacific Northwest, including Pacific Rim National Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Range alongside Rogers Pass, Kootenay National Park and Yoho National Park on the British Columbia flank of the Rockies, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in the Strait of Georgia.

The county is divided into forty townships: Alden, Alpha, Bates, Burdette, Campbell, Carlton, Cedar, Como, Florence, Gilbert, Glendale, Grand, Greenleaf, Hiland, Holden, Hulbert, Linn, Logan, Midland, Miller, Mondamin, Ohio, Ontario, Park, Pearl, Plato, Pleasant Valley, Ree Heights, Riverside, Rockdale, Rose Hill, St. Lawrence, Spring Hill, Spring Lake, Wheaton, and York ; and one area of unorganized territory: Northwest Hand.

Casas Adobes is notable for having the upscale shopping center, Casas Adobes Plaza, its only shopping mall, Foothills Mall, a major hospital, Northwest Medical Center, and the only botanical park, Tohono Chul Park.

* Northwest Park, Windsor's largest park, is located in the northwest corner of Windsor.

* The Northwest Park Country Fair is held every fall.

It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and in the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive ).

Elementary Schools ( grades k-5 ) serving Citrus Park are Citrus Park, Northwest, Bellamy, Tampa Day School ( private-Nonsectarian ), Citrus Park Christian School ( Private-Baptist ) and Hope Christian School ( Private-Boarding-Baptist ).

As executive director of the Northwest Economic Development Commission Inc. and later the Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments, Matthews helped establish nearby Pilot Mountain State Park, Horne Creek Living Historical Museum and preserve a 26-mile section of The New River.

The City operates Northwest OHV Park on the north of the city limits.

KVTI-FM, known as " I-91 FM ", broadcasted top 40 music from its Lakewood studio at Clover Park Technical College until 2010, when the college transferred management of the station to Washington State University ’ s Northwest Public Radio who discontinued the locally-produced programming in favor of a network feed from the University's Pullman campus.

In many parts of the country, food is prepared differently and different kinds of foods are made ; this includes to a smaller degree food from pre-Columbian times, as in the Northwest.

U. S. orchestras that have gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy includes the Philadelphia Orchestra ( in April 2011 ), and the Louisville Orchestra, in December 2010 ; orchestras that have gone into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and have ceased operations include the Northwest Chamber Orchestra in 2006, the Honolulu Orchestra in March 2011, the New Mexico Symphony in April 2011, and the Syracuse Symphony in June 2011.

The eleven county Northwest Ohio / Toledo / Fremont media market includes over 1 million residents.

The Army includes five military districts, the Northwest at Nukus, the Southwest special military district at Karshi, the central military district at Dzhizak, and the East military district at Ferghana.

Mbira has now become so well known due to the worldwide stage performance and recordings of Thomas Mapfumo whose music is based on and includes the mbira, and the work of Dumisani Maraire who brought marimba and karimba music to the US Pacific Northwest, Ephat Mujuru who was one of the pioneer teachers of mbira in the US, and the writings and recordings of Zimbabwean musicians made by Paul Berliner.

In Southern California, the highway is a heavily traveled commuter route serving the Northwest portion of the greater Los Angeles area ; this includes Ventura County communities in the West Conejo Valley and in the Oxnard Plain, along with Los Angeles County communities in the East Conejo Valley and San Fernando Valley.

A common conception of the Pacific Northwest includes the U. S. states of Oregon and Washington as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ) is a college athletic conference which has historically operated in the Northwestern United States, but also currently includes four schools in areas not usually considered part of that region — two in Alaska ( neither of which is located in Southeast Alaska, an area often considered part of the Northwest ), one in eastern Montana ( almost never considered part of the region ), and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia ( an area included with the Northwest U. S. in the larger Pacific Northwest region ).

The county contains the Northwest Angle, the northernmost point of the Lower 48 States, and includes the U. S. portion of Lake of the Woods, shared with Canada.

The Arctic Sounder is a newspaper published weekly by Alaska Newspapers, Inc., covers news of interest to the North Slope Borough, which includes Barrow, and the Northwest Arctic Borough which includes Kotzebue, in northwestern Alaska.

The classic film " North by Northwest ", Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, includes a scene where Grant's character flees a menacing airplane.

The decade included the founding of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce, the chamber of commerce for the Northwest St. Louis area, which includes Bridgeton.

Lafayette high school sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

Spencerville high school sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

Ada High School's sports teams participate in the Northwest Conference — an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) — which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

Crestview High School sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs,

Lacey is also home to various faith based schools, such as Faith Lutheran ( Elementary to Middle School ) and Foundation Campus, which includes Community Christian Academy ( Pre-school to Middle School ) and Northwest Christian High School.

Bluffton High School sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs, Allen East Mustangs, Bluffton Pirates, Columbus Grove Bulldogs, Convoy Crestview Knights, Delphos Jefferson Wildcats, Lima Central Catholic T-Birds, Lincolnview Lancers, Paulding Panthers, and Spencerville Bearcats.

Georgian is the most pervasive of the Kartvelian languages, a family that also includes Svan and Megrelian ( chiefly spoken in Northwest Georgia ) and Laz ( chiefly spoken along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, from Melyat, Rize to the Georgian frontier ).