As of 2011, the population of western Pacific ( seas near Korea, Japan, and Kamchatka ) gray whales was an estimated 130.

The Asia Pacific Gateway ( APG ), a new submarine cable, is under planning stage and is expected to be operational in Q3 2011.

Hawker was </ br > added to Lufthansa Technik's Landing Gear Division to form a global network for Landing Gear MRO services .</ br > In January 2011, Hawker Pacific Aerospace UK was sold to Lufthansa Technik and renamed into Lufthansa Technik </ br > Landing Gear Services UK.

* On March 11, 2011, a tsunami occurred near Fukushima, Japan and spread through the Pacific.

It was founded as the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), in 1915, whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10, becoming the Pacific-12 in 2011.

A new La Niña episode developed quite quickly in the eastern and central tropical Pacific in mid-2010, and lasted until early 2011.

* Back to their future, Pacific Sun ( San Rafael, CA ) Friday, January 14, 2011

* In 2011, a series of bronze sculptures of Fox in motion, designed by author Douglas Coupland and depicting Fox running toward the Pacific Ocean, was unveiled outside of BC Place in downtown Vancouver.

The stores continued to operate under the Borders brand as the unaffiliated " Borders Asia Pacific " until RedGroup was placed into voluntary administration in February 2011 ; with the five New Zealand stores sold to the James Pascoe Group, and the Australian stores gradually shut down, with the last group to close by July 17.

Werner Park, located less than three miles ( 5 km ) west of the city on Highway 370 in unincorporated Sarpy County, opened in 2011 as the new home of the Omaha Storm Chasers of the Pacific Coast League.

Western University of Health Sciences opened their College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest in August 2011, the first new medical school in Oregon since Oregon Health & Science University was established.

As of 2011, the Pacific Fleet consists of the numbered Third and Seventh Fleets, as well as Naval Air Force, Pacific ; Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific ; Naval Submarine Force, Pacific ; and other commands.

International tourism awards were given to Borobudur archaeological park such as PATA Grand Pacific Award 2004, PATA Gold Award Winner 2011, and PATA Gold Award Winner 2012.

In October 2011, Patricia Graham, Vancouver Sun editor in chief, was appointed Vice-President, Digital for Pacific Newspaper Group.

Union Pacific 844 pulls a steam excursion train crossing Afton Canyon, 2011.

On August 24, 2011, at 7 pm Pacific Time, Spike launched a new series called Alternate History, illustrating what the world could be like if past events were slightly different.

A fourth WWII novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011.

* The Final Storm ( 2011 )— World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), Pacific Theater

On December 31, 2011, CN completed the merger of Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company ; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company ; and Wisconsin Central Ltd. into its Wisconsin Central Ltd. subsidiary.

GOES-11 was GOES-West over the eastern Pacific Ocean until it was decommissioned December 2011 and replaced by GOES-15.

Cebu Pacific will begin operating daily flight from Zamboanga City to Tawi-Tawi Province starting October 14, 2011, utilizing its 150-seater Airbus A319 aircraft.

* Twomey, Bill and Casey, Thomas Images of America Series: Northwest Bronx ( 2011 )

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.

( Marion O. Smith, " Confederate Niter District Eight: Middle Tennessee & Northwest Georgia, 2011, 56 pages.

In April, 2011 The Northwest Passage was de-installed to make room for the Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit.

An autosomal study in 2011 found an average Northwest African influence of about 17 % in Canary Islanders with a wide interindividual variation ranging from 0 % to 96 %.

In 2011, the 112th United States Congress enacted the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012, which transferred to the Architect of the Capitol the NPS " property which is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, on the east by First Street Northwest and First Street Southwest, on the south by Maryland Avenue Southwest, and on the west by Third Street Southwest and Third Street Northwest ".

There are multiple records of vagrants from the northeast coast of North America, as well as two records on the Northwest coast ( one in Washington in 2005, and one in Seward, Alaska in November 2011 ).

Florenceville-Bristol ( 2011 population: 1, 639 ) is a Canadian town situated in the Northwest part of New Brunswick in the St. John River Valley.

An autosomal study in 2011 found an average Northwest African influence of about 17 % in Canary Islanders with a wide interindividual variation ranging from 0 % to 96 %.

William Kent Krueger's 2011 novel Northwest Angle takes place in the area.

2011, the most basal lineages have been detected in West, Northwest and Central Africa.

America West, Northwest and US Airways merged and United and Continental initiated their merger by the end of 2011.

In 2011, the university announced its plans to open the Northwest Houston Campus on the property of Lone Star College-University Park in unincorporated Harris County.

* On September 22, 2011, a DHC-6 float plane crashed in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, clipping a condominium and crashing in the street killing two and injuring seven.

In September 2011, the Vancouver Canadians won their first Northwest League Championship title, defeating the Tri-City Dust Devils 9-2 to win the final series 2-1.

Clatsop Community College ’ s accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities ( NWCCU ) was reaffirmed in 2011.

In August 2011, Nevada State College received independent accreditation at the baccalaureate degree level from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

In October 2010, The Northwest School's Board of Trustees hired Michael J. McGill, current Upper School Principal of The Park School of Baltimore, as Taussig's replacement, effective July 1, 2011.

In 2011, Unification Church's Universal Ballet spent about $ 10 million on a tour of dozens of countries.

* Cinderella-A Tragic Tale ( 2011 ) by Terence Kohler for Finnish National Ballet, Music by Lera Auerbach

Choreographed by Ninette de Valois, Checkmate was still in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet in 2011.

In April 2011, it was announced that Mark Wallinger would be one of three artists to collaborate with the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery to create a piece based on works by the Renaissance painter Titian.

2011: BAM celebrates ¡ Sí Cuba !, a citywide festival of Cuban culture, with BAM presentations of Creole Choir and Ballet Nacional de Cuba

LuPone made her New York City Ballet debut in May 2011 in a production of The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

In October 2011, Yeston's ballet Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts premiered at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, with the Kansas City Ballet.

In 2011, Schönberg created the musical score for the new ballet Cleopatra for the Northern Ballet, based in Leeds.

The 2011 Fall / Winter Tour featured Kayla Reeves and Dari Mahnic performing another new song from this forthcoming " Gutter Ballet " project entitled " Someday ".

New Opera and Ballet Theater buildings of Yaushev was open on September 9, 2011 in Saransk.

His pieces are still performed by the leading ballet troupes of the world, the Mariinsky Ballet having performed a retrospective of his works at London's Covent Garden in late July 2011.

* Romeo and Juliet ( 2011 Sergei Prokofiev ; for the Australian Ballet )

In September 2011 Stella McCartney ’ s costume designs for the New York City Ballet ’ s Ocean ’ s Kingdom premiered in New York.

The Mariinsky Ballet performed the original choreography at Covent Garden in August 2011 as part of their Fokine retrospective.

On 8 February 2011, Natasha commented in a BBC radio interview on Steve Wright in the Afternoon that she and her husband Justin Bower had performed as disguised extras for the English National Ballet although she " had insisted that her name was not used in the programme ".

In 2011, the National Ballet of Canada premiered a new choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky in Toronto, with plans to take it on tour in Western Canada in early 2012.

" ALICE " full length ballet, commissioned by the Scottish Ballet, world premiere April 2011

Stephen Manes ( born January 8, 1949 ) is the author of the 2011 nonfiction book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet.

* Jack Allen, Musical theatre performer / dancer, Cats Germany ( 2011 ), peviously Principal dancer of: Ballet Theatre UK and Artist of English National Ballet

New York City Ballet website ( Accessed 9 October 2011 ).

The albums generated two books of poetry, BBC television shows, a West End musical, a pantomime (" Captain Beaky And His Musical Christmas " performed by Twiggy, Eleanor Bron, Keith Michell, and Jeremy Lloyd at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London in December 1981 ), performances by the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, and a gala in aid of UNICEF (" The Wonderful World of Captain Beaky " performed by Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Lloyd and the National Youth Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall, London in December 2011 ).