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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. / 35.68556°N 117.69194°W / 35.68556; -117.69194. Naval Air Weapons Station ( NAWS) China Lake[ 2] 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 [ 3] under Commander, Navy ...
China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [1] It is located 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northeast of Ridgecrest , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 2,264 feet (690 m). [ 1 ] The place is on China Lake, a dry lake on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake .
1652783, 2410944. Website. www .ridgecrest-ca .gov. Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake). It was incorporated as a city in 1963.
35°37′48″N 117°40′06″W / . 35.6299°N 117.6682°W. / 35.6299; -117.6682. Type. Military museum. Website. www .chinalakemuseum .org. The China Lake Museum is a military museum in Ridgecrest, California focused on the history of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and the development of naval aviation armament and technology.
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons are two principal landforms within which are found major accumulations of Paleo-Indian and/or Native American Petroglyphs, or rock art, by the Coso People located in the Coso Range Mountains of the northern Mojave Desert, and now within the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California.
Sherman E. Burroughs High School is a public high school located in Ridgecrest, California. Established in 1945, the school is located in the upper Mojave Desert and is adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. It derives its name from U.S. Navy officer Admiral Sherman E. Burroughs, who served as the first commanding officer of the ...
Coso Range. / 36.14161000°N 117.68979222°W / 36.14161000; -117.68979222. The Coso Range of eastern California is located immediately south of Owens Lake, east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of the Argus Range. The southern part of the range lies in the restricted Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and the northern part of the range ...
Maturango Museum is located in Ridgecrest, California. The museum is best known for the guided tours of the Coso Rock Art District located on China Lake Naval Weapons Station. [1] The museum offers exhibits and displays featuring both the natural and the cultural history and diversity of the Northern Mojave Desert with exhibits of animals ...