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Dungeness Spit in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the U. S. Pacific coast.
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It includes Dungeness Spit and a five mile hike to the New Dungeness Lighthouse at the end of the spit.
It rises near Mount Constance in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park, flows through the Buckhorn Wilderness, passes by the town of Sequim, and empties into the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Dungeness Bay, behind the Dungeness Spit.
The river was named for Dungeness Spit.
Aerial view of Dungeness Spit.
Dungeness Spit is a long sand spit jutting out from the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula in northeastern Clallam County, Washington, USA, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Dungeness Spit is entirely within the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge and home of the Dungeness Lighthouse.
* Dungeness Spit: Block 2000, Census Tract 9816, Clallam County, Washington United States Census Bureau
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While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:
It was formed by members of S ' Klallam communities along the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1874 when, faced with the threat of forced relocation by white settlers, a group purchased a tract of and established a community near Dungeness named " Jamestown " in honor of village leader James Balch.
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California's Dungeness crab, California halibut, and Pacific salmon fisheries rely on the bay as a nursery.
Interim moves to Southend and West Malling were followed by final selection of an area covered by grazing land on the edge of the Dungeness shingle desert on the Kentish coast close to the village of Lydd.
Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.
As a migrant it leaves its breeding areas and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes of the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, northern Germany and the Low Countries, with small number reaching Great Britain ( for example, at Dungeness ), mostly at regular sites.
He died on 25 March 1818, at Dungeness, on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
On 3 September 1940, four German spies landed near the town on the coast between Hythe and Dungeness, but were soon caught.
Begun in 1942, the plan included a thousand miles of pipelines linking Grain on the Hoo peninsula, and other oil refineries, first to Dungeness and soon after to Sandown on the Isle of Wight, where pumping stations were set up to successfully carry over 6, 000 tons of fuel a day to Cherbourg.
Edgar ended his days as a coastguard at Dungeness on the southern edge of the parish .</ ref > Gravestone now preserved in side chapel of church </ ref >
Major salmon-bearing rivers on the Olympic Peninsula include, clockwise from the southwest: the Humptulips, the Quinault, the Queets, the Quillayute, Bogachiel, the Sol Duc, the Lyre, the Elwha ( see Elwha Ecosystem Restoration ), the Dungeness, the Dosewallips, the Hamma Hamma, the Skokomish, and the Wynoochee River.
* May 9 – An Air France Wibault 282T-12 airliner crashes into the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, England, killing all six people on board.
Dungeness nuclear power station may refer to either one of a pair of nuclear power stations, only one of which is still operational, located on the Dungeness headland in the south east of Kent, England.
Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed, the design being based on the much smaller Windscale AGR prototype ; the WAGR.
The government did not include Dungeness C in its draft National Policy Statement published on 9 November 2009, citing environmental reasons and concerns about coastal erosion and associated flood risk.
From 1961 to 1984, Dungeness power station also housed the mercury arc valves of the static inverter plant converting AC into DC for transmission on HVDC Cross-Channel, the high-voltage direct current power cable carrying electric power across the English Channel to France.
Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland.
A branch from the Marshlink Line at Appledore to New Romney was opened by the South Eastern Railway: it had a short branch to a station at Dungeness, which closed to passengers on 4 July 1937 ; it was closed completely when the Lydd to New Romney section closed on 6 March 1967.
The acoustic mirror at Dungeness is featured on the cover of the album Ether Song by the British indie band Turin Brakes.
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Boulder Ridge ( including the Gargoyles, Charlia Lakes, Cloudy Peak, Alphabet Ridge, and Warrior ) and Home Lake / Constance Pass are readily accessed via the Buckhorn Wilderness Area ( U. S. Forest Service ) side of the Upper Dungeness River Trail and Marmot Pass.
The Dungeness River is a long river located in the Olympic Peninsula in the U. S. state of Washington.
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Harrison was a descendant of Robert Carter I, Benjamin Harrison IV, William Randolph, and Isham Randolph of Dungeness.
It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury ; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone ; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings.
This division of forces left Blake with only 42 men of war by November, while the Dutch were making every effort to reinforce their fleet, and this led to an English defeat by Tromp in the Battle of Dungeness in December but didn't save the English Mediterranean fleet, largely destroyed at the Battle of Leghorn in March 1653.
In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652 – 1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dover, Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen.
There is also a story that, after his victory at Dungeness, Tromp attached a broom to his mast as a symbol that he had swept the British from the sea.
Believing that the war was all but over, the English divided their forces and in December were routed by the fleet of Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness in the English Channel.
Other commercially important taxa include Portunus pelagicus, several species in the genus Chionoecetes, the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ), Charybdis spp., Cancer pagurus, the Dungeness crab ( Metacarcinus magister ) and Scylla serrata, each of which yields more than 20, 000 tonnes annually.
Sequim is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains.
Historically, much of the area was an open oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and development of the Dungeness valley have changed this ecosystem.
The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.
The first European settlers arrived in the Dungeness Valley in the 1850s, settling nearby Dungeness, Washington.
The Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge is located just north of the city, near the mouth of the Dungeness River.
The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.
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