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North Ellesmere Ice Cap
North Ellesmere Ice Cap: the ice cover of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, dominated by the Northern Ellesmere Icefield, Agassiz Ice Cap, and Prince of Wales Icefield, with rapidly shrinking small Hazen Plateau ice caps such as St Patrick Bay.
North European Plain
North European Plain (Nizina Środkowoeuropejska, Norddeutsches Tiefland): lowland from the Low Countries through Germany, Denmark, and Poland, bounded by the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Central European highlands, shaped by glaciation and farmed intensively.
North face of the Eiger
The Eiger North Face (Eiger-Nordwand, Mordwand) is an 1,800 m limestone wall in the Swiss Bernese Alps, first climbed 21–24 July 1938 by Heckmair, Vörg, Harrer, and Kasparek; about forty routes now climb it.
North Field (Tinian)
North Field is a World War II heavy-bomber airfield on the northern tip of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, built by U.S. Navy Seabees in 1944 and 1945.
North Field Alpha Oil and Gas Field
North Field Alpha is an offshore gas and condensate production complex in Qatar's North Field, delivering its first commercial production in 1991 and operated by QatarEnergy.
North Field Bravo Oil and Gas Field
North Field Bravo is an offshore gas production complex in Qatar's North Field, commissioned in 1996, which dehydrates gas and sends it by pipeline to Ras Laffan.
North Field East
North Field East is a Qatari liquefied natural gas expansion project at Ras Laffan, adding four LNG trains and 32 million tonnes of annual capacity, with first LNG expected around 2027.
North Field South
North Field South is the second phase of Qatar's North Field LNG expansion, with two trains adding 16 million tonnes annual capacity at Ras Laffan, operated by QatarEnergy.
North Fiji Basin
North Fiji Basin (NFB): active back-arc basin in the Southwest Pacific behind the New Hebrides subduction zone; multiple spreading ridges, 50–80 mm/yr spreading, hot upper mantle, hydrothermal vents, Archaean analogue.
North Florida
North Florida is the northern region of Florida, from Escambia County east through Duval and south to roughly Alachua County, defined by karst geology, the Floridan aquifer, springs, Jacksonville, and a Deep South timber economy.
North Foreland
North Foreland is a cape at the northeastern point of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, forming the eastern entrance point of Emerald Cove.
North Galactic Pole
The North Galactic Pole, or NGP, is the point on the celestial sphere 90 degrees above the Milky Way's plane, in the constellation Coma Berenices.
North Gate
North Gate, also called the High Street Gate, is the 1327–1342 Grade I listed medieval gatehouse and main city entrance to Salisbury Cathedral Close, Wiltshire, with 17th-century oak gates and a nightly lockup routine.
North Geragai Oil Field
North Geragai Oil Field, also called Geragai North, is an onshore oil and gas field in Jambi Province, Indonesia, discovered in 1995 and operated by PetroChina.
North German Confederation
North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund): Prussian-led federal state of 22 states north of the Main, 1867 to 1871, founded after the Austro-Prussian War under Bismarck's constitution; direct forerunner of the German Empire, which adopted its institutions nearly unchanged.
North Germanic languages
North Germanic languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, and Icelandic, the Scandinavian branch of Germanic descended from Old Norse, split into West and East groups in the seventh century and divided into mutually intelligible mainland and conservative insular varieties.
North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples are the Scandinavian and Icelandic peoples speaking the North Germanic branch of Germanic: Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Faroese. Covers Proto-Norse to Old Norse origins, Viking Age identity, kingdom formation, and modern languages with about 20 million speakers.
North Giza power plant
North Giza power plant (محطة شمال الجيزة) is a 2,250 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Giza, Egypt, owned by the Cairo Electricity Production Company.
North Hamada Oil and Gas Field
North Hamada Oil and Gas Field (حقل شمال الحمادة) is an onshore oil and gas field in the Ghadames Basin in northwestern Libya, producing since August 2023.
North Hamgyong Province
North Hamgyong Province (함경북도, Hamgyŏngpukto) is the northeasternmost province of North Korea, bordering China and Russia along the Tumen River and facing the Sea of Japan; its capital is Chongjin.
North Harbour Stadium
North Harbour Stadium, formerly QBE Stadium, is a 25,000-capacity multi-purpose stadium in Albany on Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand, opened in 1997; home of North Harbour Rugby and Moana Pasifika.
North Haven Capital Partners
North Haven Capital Partners is the fund-family name for United States middle-market private equity funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, investing in consumer, healthcare, and industrial companies.
North Haven Credit Partners
North Haven Credit Partners is a private credit platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, based in New York, that makes junior capital investments in private North American businesses.
North Haven Infrastructure Partners
North Haven Infrastructure Partners is a series of global infrastructure private equity funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, which reports about $18 billion invested since 2006.
North Haven Real Estate X Global-T
North Haven Real Estate X Global-T is a Delaware limited partnership vehicle for Morgan Stanley's $3.1 billion global real estate private equity fund, launched in 2020.
North Haven Tactical Value
North Haven Tactical Value is a family of private investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, its flexible, non-control platform making credit, hybrid, and equity investments.
North Haven Venture Capital Opportunities Fund I
North Haven Venture Capital Opportunities Fund I is a Delaware venture capital fund of funds managed by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions, which closed at over $280 million in 2025.
North Hills, Los Angeles
North Hills is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, formerly Mission Acres (c. 1915) and Sepulveda (1927), renamed North Hills in 1991–1992; bounded by Balboa, Lassen, Sepulveda, and Roscoe, ZIP 91343.
North Holland
North Holland (Noord-Holland) is a Dutch province, capital Haarlem, created in 1840 from the split of Holland. Second most populous province with about 3 million people across 44 municipalities including Amsterdam; a peninsula bounded by North Sea, Wadden Sea, and IJsselmeer.
North Hollywood (film)
North Hollywood (2021) is Mikey Alfred's coming-of-age comedy-drama debut, starring Ryder McLaughlin, Vince Vaughn, and Miranda Cosgrove, produced by Pharrell Williams and Noah Centineo, about a graduate torn between pro skating and his father's plans.