Coast Range

Coast Range or Coastal range may refer to:

  • North American examples are the coastal ranges of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and California, and Alaska, referred to as the Pacific Coast Ranges. Of these, it may mean in particular:
    • the Coast Mountains, often referred to as the Coast Range, a major mountain range in British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon.
  • The USGS Geographical Names Information System designates "Coast Ranges" to mean the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca and west of Puget Sound, the Williamette Valley, and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley. These include:
    • the Olympic Mountains in Washington
    • the Willapa Hills in Washington, which are an extension of the Oregon Coast Range
    • the Oregon Coast Range
    • the California Coast Ranges
  • Chilean Coast Range

Famous quotes containing the words coast and/or range:

    “My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
    —bell hooks (b. 1955)