• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Basically the north shore is in the Arctic Circle. The vast majority of Alaska is in the Pacific. As is all 1200 km (27 000 km of coastline) of British Columbia.

    • comador @lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Thus why I specifically cited ‘parts of’.

      It is a body boarding on two distinct zones and is therefore treated special in everything from Cartography to Geography and Meteorology. That’s just the way it is.