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Portland Canal, International Boundary
Portland Canal is a narrow water passage that forms part of the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.
Point of the Arches, Olympic National Park
Point of the Arches and the adjacent Shi Shi Beach represent a unique section of shoreline located at the edge of the Olympic National Park.
New Eddystone Rock, Behm Canal
The New Eddystone Rock is a pillar of basalt, 237 feet (72 m) high, in Behm Canal, Alaska.
Rudyerd Bay, Misty Fjords National Monument
Rudyerd Bay is a fjord on the mainland of Southeast Alaska, about 37 air miles (60 km) east of Ketchikan.
Lucy Islands Light, Chatham Sound
The Lucy Islands are a small archipelago in Chatham Sound, roughly 11 miles (17 km) west of Prince Rupert, Canada.
About the background graphic
This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset.
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