* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

It is the main route connecting the Port of Vancouver and other ports around the Strait of Georgia with the Pacific Ocean.

In November 1774, Cook started from New Zealand and crossed the South Pacific without sighting land between 53 ° and 57 ° S to Tierra del Fuego ; then, passing Cape Horn on 29 December, he rediscovered Roché Island renaming it Isle of Georgia, and discovered the South Sandwich Islands ( named Sandwich Land by him ), the only ice-clad land he had seen, before crossing the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope between 55 ° and 60 °.

From 1792 to 1794, George Vancouver charted the Pacific Northwest on behalf of Great Britain, including the Strait of Georgia, the bays and inlets of Puget Sound, and the Johnstone Strait – Queen Charlotte Strait and much of the rest of the British Columbia Coast and southeast Alaska shorelines.

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 Georgia Strait – Puget Sound basin is shared between British Columbia and Washington, and the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion, which is the largest of the world's temperate rain forest ecozones in the system created by the World Wildlife Fund, stretches along the coast from Alaska to California.

Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.

In 1969 the Union Lumber Company was purchased by Boise Cascade and John Quincy and it, in turn, became Georgia Pacific in 1973.

Recently, Georgia Pacific Lumber Company put on the market a piece of property within the city limits, formerly the site of a large mill facility.

The mill was shut down in 2002 and has been identified as a nonperforming asset by Georgia Pacific.

Bremen ’ s economy was given a significant boost when the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad was built, crossing the Georgia Pacific at Bremen.

Georgia Pacific ; now a division of Southern Railway, chose the town of Austell to be a station depot ; being the dividing point for the major Birmingham and Chattanooga railway lines.

Great Southern Paper was acquired by Georgia Pacific in 1990.

He entered the United States Army as a private in 1941, was commissioned as a second lieutenant at the United States Army Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, and served with the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific.

Temperate rain forests occur only in seven regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southwestern South America, the rain forests of New Zealand and Tasmania, northwest Europe ( small pockets in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Iceland and a somewhat larger area in Norway ), southern Japan, and the eastern Black Sea-Caspian Sea region of Turkey and Georgia to northern Iran.

These men pushed into the wilderness territories of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the Gulf of Georgia on the Pacific Coast.

It surrounds the endowment lands of the University of British Columbia on the shores of Georgia Strait in the Pacific Ocean.

Branches in the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, and Utah were rebranded in May 2009 ; branches in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, and Greater New York were rebranded in July 2009, and the remaining branches in Nevada, California, Arizona, and Colorado were rebranded in October 2009.

Georgia Pacific is contributing to dam removal work as part of an effort to clean up PCB contamination in Kalamazoo.

In the summer of 2008, Georgia Pacific held a fuel conservation summit to explore ways for shippers and carriers to work together to further reduce fuel consumption from its freight transport operations.

Amelio is a current or past director of AT & T Inc., Pacific Telesis, Chiron Corporation, Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board ( as chairman ) and the American Film Institute.

The 70th Tank Battalion at Fort Knox Kentucky had pulled World War II memorial M26s off of pedestals and reconditioned them for use, but had to fill out two companies with M4A3s ; the 72nd Tank Battalion at Fort Lewis Washington and the 73rd Tank Battalion at Fort Benning Georgia were fully equipped with M26s ; the 89th Medium Tank Battalion was constituted in Japan with three companies of reconditioned M4A3s and one of M26s from various bases in the Pacific ; due to the shortage of M26s, most regimental tank companies had M4A3 Shermans instead.

This species has been seen off Brazil, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia in the Atlantic, off Auckland, Tasmania and south Australia in the South Pacific and Heard Island and Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean.

The guns were designed by Gordon Ingram and Military Armament Corporation of Georgia.

PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation ( NERC ), a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, was formed on March 28, 2006, as the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council ( also known as NERC ).

* Unisia of Georgia Corporation

Lotteries in the United States are also run by government corporations, such as the Georgia Lottery Corporation and many others.

In 2009, due to mishandling and apparent criminal negligence at a single Peanut Corporation of America factory in Blakely, Georgia, Salmonella was found in 46 states in peanut-butter-based products such as crackers, peanut-butter cookies, and dog treats.

BellSouth Corporation is an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.

He left the Georgia Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s to work at an early data communications company, National Data Corporation in Atlanta, a company that handled electronic money transfers and credit card authorizations.

He returned to Louisiana in 1984 to work for Georgia Pacific Corporation, a paper company.

In 1927, the American millionaire Charles Levine invited Kartvelishvili to New York, to join the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation in 1928 and in 1931 Kartvelishvili met the prominent engineer Alexander de Seversky, who was born in Georgia but was of Russian descent.

Due to the false assumption that Kartvelishvili was of Russian origin ( Georgia at that time was part of the USSR and the relationship between both superpowers was stressed ), he never became as famous as his counterpart Clarence Johnson who was leading designer of the Lockheed Corporation.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ball Corporation ( NYSE: BLL ), with primary offices in Boulder and facilities in Broomfield and Westminster in Colorado, with smaller offices in New Mexico, Ohio, Georgia, Northern Virginia, and Maryland.

The first female chairman, president and CEO to ever ring the New York Stock Exchange ’ s opening bell when she did so in 1998, was Georgia State alum M. Christine Jacobs of Georgia-based Theragenics Corporation.

Stores in ten states from Florida west to Arizona became CVS ; the stores from Georgia north to New York continued as Eckerd Corporation, run by Jean Coutu's US arm along with its New England-based Brooks chain.

After graduation, Kilrain worked as a wind tunnel project officer for Lockheed Corporation in Marietta, Georgia, and earned her graduate degree.

He also served as Chairman of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association and as President of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

In October, 1942 the Church was incorporated as a non-profit corporation under the Georgia Corporation Act of 1938.

Western Wireless subsidiary Western Wireless International Corporation held mobile licenses in several countries outside the United States including: Austria ( Tele. Ring ), Ireland ( Meteor Mobile Communications ), Slovenia ( Vega ), Haiti ( ComCel ), Bolivia ( NuevaTel PCS ), Iceland ( TAL ), Croatia ( vipnet ), Georgia, Ghana and Cote d ' Ivoire covering about 1. 8 million subscribers in 2005.

For three years, Hampden-Turner worked in ghettoes, and poor rural communities, from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation in New York, to Eskimo reindeer herding in Alaska and getting in the watermelon harvest in Southwest Georgia, developing social and intellectual policy solutions.

He is chairman of the board of Harris Georgia Corporation, an industrial development firm that was established in 1980 in Cartersville, Georgia.

Afterward, he worked for twenty years for IBM Corporation in Georgia and later operated his own business, M's Inc., which sold office supplies and equipment in Brunswick, Georgia.