China Lake

	China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is a United States military facility in California. China Lake may also refer to: Places in the United States China Lake, Kern County, California, an unincorporated community named for a nearby dry lake China Lake Acres, California, a census-designated place (CDP) * China Lake (Maine), a pond in Kennebec County Other uses * ''China Lake'' (film), a 1983 thriller film * China Lake Grenade Launcher, developed at the military facility ''China Lake'', a 1992 novel by Anthony Hyde The China Lake Murders ''The China Lake Murders'' is a 1990 television film starring Tom Skerritt. It is about a small desert town that experiences a series of murders. The film was rated PG-13 and first aired on the USA Network and for many years held the record for t ... , a 1990 film {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	China Lake Acres, California China Lake Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 1,876 at the 2010 census, up from 1,761 at the 2000 census. Geography China Lake Acres is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, this CDP (census-designated place), commonly referred to by local residents aThe Acres has a total area of , over 99% land. Demographics 2010 At the 2010 census China Lake Acres had a population of 1,876. The population density was . The racial makeup of China Lake Acres was 1,601 (85.3%) White, 35 (1.9%) African American, 29 (1.5%) Native American, 16 (0.9%) Asian, 7 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 84 (4.5%) from other races, and 104 (5.5%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 265 people (14.1%). The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized. There were 755 households, 219 (29.0%) had children under the age of 18 l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command, and was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS). The installation is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately north of Los Angeles. Occupying land in three counties – Kern, San Bernardino, and Inyo – the installation's closest neighbors are the city of Ridgecrest and the communities of Inyokern, Trona, and Darwin. China Lake is the United States Navy's largest single landholding, representing 85% of the Navy's land for weapons and armaments research, development, acquisition, testing and evaluation (RDAT&E) use and 38% of the Navy's land holdings worldwide. In total, its two ranges and main site cover more than , an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. As of 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	China Lake, Kern County, California China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located north-northeast of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 2,264 feet (690 m). The place is on China Lake, a dry lake on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. The first post office at China Lake opened in 1948. History Prehistory The locale was originally settled by the Coso People, who were prolific artisans in creating rock art. The Coso left archaeological evidence substantiating trade between the Coso and other Native American tribes. For example, distant trade with the Chumash People is confirmed by archaeological recovery of obsidian that has been linked to the Cosos and was discovered as far away as coastal California prehistoric sites in San Luis Obispo County. Early 1900s (origin of name) Chinese prospectors harvested borax from the dry lake bed approximately 1.5 miles south of Paxton Ranch. The operation was known locally as "The Little Chinese Borax Works". This led to the area bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	China Lake (Maine) China Lake is a lake in Kennebec County, Maine. Located northeast of the state capital of Augusta, China Lake is situated in the towns of China and Vassalboro. China Lake has two large basins connected by a narrow neck. The elongated eastern basin with an average depth of less than is entirely within the town of China, and has an irregular shoreline heavily developed with residences and seasonal cottages. The more nearly circular western basin extending into East Vassalboro is as deep as , and shoreline development around the western basin has been discouraged to allow use as a water supply for Waterville and Winslow. The western basin overflows into Outlet Stream in the town of Vassalboro. Outlet Stream flows north to discharge into the Sebasticook River in Winslow upstream of the Kennebec River. Summer water temperatures in China Lake range from near the surface to in the deepest pools. Nutrient loading from shoreline development causes annual algal blooms with nocturnal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	China Lake (film) ''China Lake'' is a 1983 psychological thriller film starring Charles Napier as a deranged police officer who rides around on a motorbike "targeting" people that have offended him in some way while vacationing near the film's titular location of China Lake. The short film was directed by Robert Harmon, who funded this movie personally to promote himself as a director. In 1990, the film was made into a feature-length made-for-TV movie titled ''The China Lake Murders'', which is considered to be a remake of this film rather than an actual sequel. Plot Donnelly is a disturbed cop on vacation leave. Despite being off-duty, he is still in his uniform. As he rides through the desert on his Harley, he stops a lady whom he accuses of being drunk; while exhausted from driving continuously for hours, she is obviously anything but drunk. Donnelly proceeds to lock her in the trunk of her car, leaving her on a quiet road where no one is likely to pass by for some time. Continuing on, he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Anthony Hyde Anthony Hyde (born 1946) is a Canadian author of spy novels, most notably ''The Red Fox'' and ''Formosa Straits''. Background Hyde was born in Ottawa, in 1946, and is the son of the artist and film-maker, Laurence Hyde. During the 1960s, Hyde played a leadership role in thCanadian New Left especially with The Student Union for Peace Action, and his writing has always had a strong political element. His first novel, ''The Red Fox'' (1985), is a spy novel published in more than twenty countries, with a historical background that ranged from the Comintern in the 1930s to the development of an ultra-nationalist right in contemporary Russia. ''China Lake'' (1992) was set at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake (now the Naval Air Weapons Station). Its theme is the interface between science and the military, and its background is the development of rocketry from the Nazi era into the Cold War. ''Formosa Straits'' (1995) is set in China and Taiwan during the closing days of the Mao er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]