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North Pacific Gyre
The North Pacific Gyre (North Pacific Subtropical Gyre) is a clockwise system of rotating currents bounded by the Kuroshio, California, and North Equatorial Currents; its convergent center traps floating plastic, forming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
North Pacific High
The North Pacific High, or North Pacific Subtropical High (NPSH), is a semi-permanent high-pressure system over the North Pacific, strongest in summer between about 15°N and 45°N.
North Pacific Index
The North Pacific Index, or NP index, is a climate index measuring the strength of the winter Aleutian low, defined by Trenberth and Hurrell in 1994.
North Pacific Intermediate Water
North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) is the low-salinity water mass of the North Pacific, a salinity minimum at depths of roughly 300–800 m, sourced mainly from the Sea of Okhotsk.
North Pacific Oscillation
The North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) is a recurring north-south seesaw in sea level pressure over the North Pacific, tied to shifts of the Aleutian low and to ENSO.
North Palace at Deir el-Ballas
North Palace at Deir el-Ballas: large 17th Dynasty mudbrick campaign palace of Seqenenre Tao, Kamose, and Ahmose, over 200 by 350 meters, excavated by Reisner 1900-1901, distinct from the Amarna North Palace.
North Palace, Nineveh
The North Palace of Ashurbanipal is a royal palace Ashurbanipal built on the Kuyunjik mound at Nineveh, Iraq, from about 646 BC, famous for its lion-hunt reliefs.
North Pennines AONB UNESCO Global Geopark
North Pennines AONB UNESCO Global Geopark: an upland area of County Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria, Britain's first European Geopark (2003), a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, and a National Landscape of nearly 2,000 square kilometers.
North Peoria
North Peoria names two places: the suburban northern section of Peoria, Illinois (Richwoods, The Knolls, median sold $222,000), and the master-planned desert growth area of Peoria, Arizona (Vistancia, The Trailhead).
North Platte
North Platte River, tributary of the Platte River rising in northern Colorado, looping 350 miles through southeast Wyoming to Nebraska; snowmelt-fed, dammed by seven Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs, irrigating over 440,000 acres.
North Polar Spur
The North Polar Spur is a prominent ridge of radio and X-ray emission rising from the Galactic plane toward the North Galactic Pole, forming the brightest arm of Loop I.
North Pole
North Pole: the geographic point at 90° N where Earth's axis meets its surface, in the Arctic Ocean on drifting sea ice. Distinct from magnetic and geomagnetic north poles; Cook and Peary's 1908-1909 claims remain disputed.
North Pole, Alaska
North Pole, Alaska: small Interior Alaska city near Fairbanks, incorporated 1953, Christmas-themed with Santa Claus House; also known for sulfolane and PFAS groundwater contamination from its former refinery.
North Pyongan
North Pyongan (평안북도; also romanized North Phyongan) is a western province of North Korea, capital Sinuiju, bordering China across the Yalu River and producing 22 percent of the country's rice.
North Queensland Cowboys
North Queensland Cowboys, Townsville-based community-owned rugby league club (NRL, est. 1995); wooden spooners turned 2015 premiers behind Johnathan Thurston and Jason Taumalolo, with feeder teams, Queensland Country Bank Stadium and 43,713 members.
North Queensland Export Terminal
The North Queensland Export Terminal is a coal export terminal at the Port of Abbot Point, Queensland, opened in 1984 with a capacity of 50 million tonnes a year.
North Queensland Stadium
North Queensland Stadium, or Queensland Country Bank Stadium, is a 25,000-seat stadium in Townsville, Australia, home of the North Queensland Cowboys; opened February 2020, cost about $293.5 million.
North Rankin gas field
The North Rankin gas field is a giant gas and condensate field in the Carnarvon Basin on Australia's North West Shelf, discovered in 1971 and producing since 1984.
North Red Beach
North Red Beach (Praia Vermelha do Norte, VDN) is a surf beach in Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, 7 km north of the center on the Rio-Santos highway, with reddish iron-oxide sand, heavy shorebreak, and a CETESB-monitored bathing point.
North Region
North Region (Région du Nord), one of Cameroon's ten regions, capital Garoua, created 1983 from the old North Province. Four departments, 65,576 km², Bénoué basin, Lagdo dam, three national parks, and poverty near 61%.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, NRW), Germany's most populous federal state, founded 23 August 1946 by the British Military Government in Operation Marriage; capital Düsseldorf, GDP €872 billion, Minister-President Hendrik Wüst.
North Riverside Palace
The North Riverside Palace was a large walled royal residence at the northern end of Amarna, the capital Akhenaten founded in the late Eighteenth Dynasty.
North Riyadh UNESCO Global Geopark
North Riyadh UNESCO Global Geopark, also sought as Thadiq Geopark, is a 3,221 km² geopark in Thadiq Governorate, Saudi Arabia, designated 17 April 2025 with Salma as the country's first two geoparks, featuring Tuwaiq Mountain tabletop escarpments and Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone.
North Road (company)
The North Road Company, commonly called North Road, is an American independent film and television studio founded in 2022 by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Jesse Jacobs.
North Rumela-Khor Al-Zubair Gas Pipeline
The North Rumela-Khor Al-Zubair Gas Pipeline (انبوب غاز شمال الرميلة) is an operating natural gas pipeline in southern Iraq, owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.
North Russia intervention
The North Russia intervention (Интервенция на Севере) was an Allied military campaign in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia from March 1918 to October 1919, led by British and American forces.
North Saqqara animal necropolis
The North Saqqara animal necropolis is a complex of underground animal catacombs at Saqqara, Egypt, in use from the Late Period into Ptolemaic times, holding millions of mummified ibises, dogs, and other votive animals.
North Saskatchewan
North Saskatchewan River (Cree: kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, Blackfoot: Omaka-ty), a 1,287 km Canadian river rising in the Saskatchewan Glacier and joining the South Saskatchewan near Prince Albert; dammed by Brazeau and Bighorn dams and a 2024 heritage river.
North Saskatchewan River valley parks system
Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, the Ribbon of Green, is Canada's largest urban park: 160 km of pathways, 20 major parks, over 18,000 acres, shaped by the 1907 Todd plan, 1985 bylaw, and 2025 planning renewal.
North Schell Peak
North Schell Peak is the 11,883-ft (LiDAR 11,890.9 ft) highest summit of Nevada's 142-mile Schell Creek Range, an ultra-prominent peak with about 5,400 ft of prominence in the High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, near Ely.