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Quinault Places
Quinault may refer to: * Quinault people, an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast **Quinault Indian Nation, a federally recognized tribe **Quinault language, their language People *Quinault family of actors, including: * Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault (1687–1745), comedian and musician ** Jeanne Quinault (1699–1783), actor, bluestocking ''saloniste'' ** Philippe Quinault (1635–1688), French dramatist and librettist ** Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791), French singer and composer Places * Quinault Canyon * Lake Quinault * Quinault River, a river located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington * Quinault Pass * Quinault Rainforest * Quinault, Washington Other * Quinault Treaty, signed in 1855 * MV Quinault, MV ''Quinault'', a Steel Electric Class ferry previously part of the Washington State Ferry system * Château Quinault, a Saint-Émilion winery {{disambiguation, surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault People
The Quinault ( or , kʷínayɬ) are a group of Native American peoples from western Washington in the United States. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people and are enrolled in the federally recognized Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation. The name "Quinault" is an anglicized (albeit French) version of /ˈkʷinajɬ/, the traditional name of a village at the mouth of the Quinault River, today called Taholah. The river, village, and people were given the anglicized name Quinault in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley. It is also possible that both names come from a French trapper from the Quinault family who visited the area. Lands The Quinault Indian Reservation, at , is located on the Pacific coast of Washington, primarily in northwestern Grays Harbor County, with small parts extending north into southwestern Jefferson County. It has a land area of 819.294 km2 (316.331 sq mi) and reported a resident population of 1,370 persons as of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Quinault
Lake Quinault ( or ) is a lake on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state. It is located in the glacial-carved Quinault Valley of the Quinault River, at the southern edge of Olympic National Park in the northwestern United States. One of the most dominant features of Lake Quinault is its location within the Quinault Rainforest, a temperate rain forest. Lake Quinault is owned by the Quinault Indian Nation. The area is accessible from U.S. Route 101. Area activities include fishing (with permit from the Quinaults), scenic drives (a loop around the lake is longer than ), and hiking. The southern side of the lake features a system of short hiking trails maintained by the U.S. Forest Service that are accessible to casual day hikers. The southern side of the lake is home to the historic Lake Quinault Lodge and the Rain Forest Resort Village and is encompassed by the Olympic National Forest. The Quinault Loop Trail on the south side of the lake and the nearby Quinault R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Quinault
The MV ''Quinault'' was a operated by Washington State Ferries. Originally built as the MV ''Redwood Empire'' in Oakland for Northwestern Pacific, she started out serving Southern Pacific Railways on their Golden Gate Ferries line on San Francisco Bay. She was purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSN) in 1940, brought to Puget Sound and renamed the MV ''Quinault'', serving PSN until Washington State Ferries acquired and took over operations in 1951. In 2002, ''Quinault'' was featured in a scene in the movie ''The Ring The Ring may refer to: Arts and entertainment *The Ring (franchise), ''The Ring'' (franchise), a Japanese horror media franchise Literature * ''The Ring'', a 1967 novel by Richard Chopping * ''The Ring'', a 1988 book by Daniel Keys Moran * ''The R ...''. On November 20, 2007, the entire Steel Electric class was withdrawn from service due to hull corrosion issues. The ''Quinault'' was not in service at the time. On June 19, 2009, Washington State Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault Treaty
The Quinault Treaty (also known as the Quinault River Treaty and the Treaty of Olympia) was a treaty agreement between the United States and the Native American Quinault and Quileute tribes located in the western Olympic Peninsula north of Grays Harbor, in the recently formed Washington Territory. The treaty was signed on 1 July 1855, at the Quinault River, and on 25 January 1856 at Olympia, the territorial capital. It was ratified by Congress on 8 March 1859, and proclaimed law on April 11, 1859. Signatories included Isaac Stevens, superintendent of Indian affairs and governor of Washington Territory, and representatives of the Quinault and Quileute, as well as the Hoh tribe, which was considered a subset of the Quileutes. The Quinault Indian Reservation was established under the terms of the treaty. Indian signatories included the Quinault Head Chief Taholah and Sub-chiefs Wah-kee-nah, Yer-ay-let'l, and Kne-she-guartsh, the Quileute Head Chief How-yat'l and Sub-chiefs Kal-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault, Washington
Quinault ( or ) is an unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. Quinault is located on the shores of Lake Quinault on the Olympic Peninsula. Lake Quinault is the location of Lake Quinault Lodge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Climate Quinault is on the windward side of the Olympic mountains, which gives it an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) with a very wet 3485 mm of precipitation falling each year. It is one of the wettest places in Washington state. Summers average about 17 °C and winters 3 degrees. Both are relatively mild. Summer has a significant drying trend as is common in the Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest (PNW; ) is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common ..., but significant rain still fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault Rainforest
The Quinault Rain Forest is a temperate rain forest, which is part of the Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington in Grays Harbor and Jefferson Counties. The rain forest is located in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault. The valley is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest Giants" because of the number of record size tree species located there. The largest specimens of Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock, Alaskan Cedar and Mountain Hemlock are found in the forest as well as five of the ten largest Douglas-firs. The forest receives an average of of rain per year. It is believed to be the area with the greatest number of record size giant tree species in the smallest area in the world. It does have the largest trees in the world outside of the state of California and New Zealand. Located on the western side of the Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault Pass
Quinault Pass is a snow pass trending in a north–south direction lying between the Lully Foothills and the LeMay Range in central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature was photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960, it was named in association with the nearby Lully Foothills by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after the French dramatist Philippe Quinault Philippe Quinault (; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688) was a French dramatist and librettist. Biography Quinault was born in Paris. He was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of ''Marianne''. Quinault's fi ..., (1635-1688). Mountain passes of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault River
The Quinault River ( or ) is a long river located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It originates deep in the Olympic Mountains in the Olympic National Park. It flows southwest through the "Enchanted Valley" to opposite Quinault Canyon. Several miles above Lake Quinault the river is joined by its main tributary, the North Fork Quinault River. The main stem Quinault River above this confluence is sometimes called the East Fork Quinault River. Below the confluence the river marks the boundary of Olympic National Park for several miles before emptying into Lake Quinault. After the lake, the Quinault River flows southwest, reaching the Pacific at Taholah. From Lake Quinault to the ocean, the river is contained within the Quinault Indian Reservation. The Quinault River's drainage basin is in area. ArcExplorer GIS data viewer. Its main tributaries include the North Fork Quinault River, Graves Creek, Fox Creek, and Cook Creek. ArcExplorer GIS data vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault Canyon
The Quinault Canyon is a submarine canyon, off Washington state, in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The area It lies opposite the Quinault Reservation. From the map, it is clear the Quinault River drains into the Pacific Ocean, opposite Quinault Canyon. The north of the Copalis National Wildlife Refuge is also a bit east, as are a few cities and sites, as Kalaloch, Queets, Taholah, Point Grenville (a headland), Moclips, and Pacific Beach. Also, Quinault, Washington and Lake Quinault are both onshore. The canyon is dynamic area where humans do not detect massive submarine landslides which occur on its steep side walls, and the bottom collects sediment deposited from above. Its dimensions Quinault Canyon is from shore, and is 378 square nautical miles in area. Nearby submarine canyons All of the following submarine canyons are near, headed north to south: * Clayoquot Canyon * Father Charles Canyon * Loudon Canyon * Barkely Canyon * Nitinat Canyon * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinault Indian Nation
The Quinault Indian Nation ( or ; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault people, Quinault, Queets people, Queets, Quileute people, Quileute, Hoh, Lower Chehalis people, Chehalis, Chinook people, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples."People of the Quinault." ''Quinault Indian Nation.'' Retrieved September 24, 2013. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their tribe is located in Washington (state), Washington state on the Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula. These peoples are also represented in other tribes in Washington and Oregon. In July 2016, about 2,500 landowners with interests in the Quinault Reservation were offered about $59 million by the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (; 26 August 1695 – 1793) (known as Mademoiselle Quinault , the elder) was a French singer and composer. Quinault was born in Strasbourg. Her father was the actor (1656–1728), and one of her brothers was Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor. She made her debut at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lully's '' Bellérophon''. She remained at the opera until 1713. In 1714 she began singing at the Comédie-Française, where she remained until 1722 Quinault composed motets for the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles. For one of these motets, thanks to the benevolence of the Duke of Orléans, she was awarded the first and last ''grand cordon'' of the Order of Saint Michael ever given to a woman She was the mistress first of Louis, the Duke of Orléans, and later of Philippe Jules François Mancini, the Duke of Nevers, to whom she may have secretly been married. This brought her into higher social sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault (; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688) was a French dramatist and librettist. Biography Quinault was born in Paris. He was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of ''Marianne''. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen. The piece succeeded, and Quinault followed it up, but he also read for the bar; and in 1660, when he married a widow with money, he bought himself a place in the ''Cour des Comptes''. Then he tried tragedies (''Agrippa'', etc.) with more success. He received one of the literary pensions then recently established, and was elected to the Académie française in 1670. Up to this time he had written some sixteen or seventeen comedies, tragedies, and tragi-comedies, which began at the ''Hôtel de Bourgogne'' in 1653, and of which the tragedies were mostly of very small value and the tragi-comedies of little more. But his comedies—especially his first piece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
