Kern
Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. Kern River is the southern terminus of the Friant-Kern Canal, constructed between 1945 and 1951 to bring the waters of the San Joaquin River to the region (see Central Valley project); irrigated agriculture (alfalfa, fruit, cotton) and cattle grazing are practiced. U.S. explorer John Frémont named the river in honor of Edward M. Kern, the topographer of his third expedition. Gold was discovered along the river in 1853. The entire river is protected by the National Park Service; the canyon of the upper Kern in Sequoia National Park is noted for its beauty.
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Kern may refer to:
- Kern (typography), the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font
- Kern (soldier), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies
- Kern, California, a former unincorporated community in Kern County, California
- Kern County, California, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California
- Kern ag, a German-based international language service company
- Boron, California or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States
- (Kern Lda), a Portugal-based Real Estate Agent, West Algarve
People with the surname
- Anna Petrovna Kern (1800—1873), Pushkin's mistress
- András Kern, popular Hungarian actor
- Brad Kern
- Dorothee Kern, Professor at Brandeis University
- Ericca Kern (born 1965), American bodybuilder
- David J. Kern
- Edward Kern (1822—1863), American cartographer and artist
- Jamie Kern
- Jerome Kern (1885–1945), American composer
- Jim Kern
- Joey Kern
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (or H. Kern, 1833–1917), Dutch linguist and former head of Brahmana College and of Queen's College, Benares
- John W. Kern (1849–1917), American politician
- John Kern (Canadian politician)
- Kevin Kern
- Marc Kern (ice hockey) (born 1989), Swiss ice hockey goaltender
- Mitch Kern, American artist
- Nathaniel Kern, President, Foreign Reports Inc.
- Olga Kern (born 1975), Russian classical pianist
- Otto Kern (1863–1942), German linguist
- Paul J. Kern, American general
- Richard Kern (born 1954), American photographer and filmmaker
- Sally Kern (born 1946), Oklahoma state legislator
- Sean Kern (born 1978), American water polo player
- Werner Kern (football manager) (born 1946), German football coach
See also
- Kirn (disambiguation)
- Kernel (disambiguation)
- Kerner, a surname
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