*This is not a typo. The wave was 400 feet higher than the World Trade Center towers.
The Coast Pilot is a compilation of navigation information, descriptions of bays and harbors, tide and current data, and meteorological tables published by the U.S. government. No prudent mariner would travel the coast of Alaska without one.
* Compare this with Mount Everest, which rises slightly more than 11,000 feet from its base on a plateau at 17,575 feet to 29,000 feet at its summit.
Though dozens and dozens of taxonomic subgroups were once used, biologists now agree that all brown bears and grizzlies— including European brown bears— belong to a single species, Ursus arctos. The names grizzly bear and brown bear are used interchangeably.