Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. ^[1]

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1. 359 relations: Abel Tasman, Abraham Ortelius, Acapulco, Admiralty Islands, Afonso de Albuquerque, Alaska, Aleutian Current, Aleutian Islands, American Cordillera, Americas, Andes, Andesite line, Antarctic, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctica, António de Abreu, Arafura Sea, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Aru Islands Regency, Asia, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Astronomer, Atoll, Auckland, Austral Islands, Australasian Mediterranean Sea, Australasian snapper, Australia (continent), Austroasiatic languages, Austronesian peoples, Avon (publisher), Bali Sea, Banaba, Banda Neira, Banda Sea, Bangkok, BBC, Becquerel, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Bismarck Archipelago, Bismarck Sea, Bohai Sea, Bohol Sea, Borders of the oceans, Bougainville Island, British Columbia, Buka, Bougainville, Busan, ... Expand index (309 more) » « Shrink index

2. Asia
3. North America
4. Oceania
5. Oceans surrounding Antarctica
6. South America

Abel Tasman

Abel Janszoon Tasman (160310 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

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Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 4 or 14 April 152728 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands.

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Acapulco

Acapulco de Juárez, commonly called Acapulco (Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City.

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Admiralty Islands

The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Afonso de Albuquerque

Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (– 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aleutian Current

Aleutian Current is also called the "Subarctic Current".

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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American Cordillera

The American Cordillera is a chain of mountain ranges (cordilleras) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of the Americas.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Andesite line

The andesite line is the most significant regional geologic distinction in the Pacific Ocean basin.

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Antarctic

The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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António de Abreu

António de Abreu was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and naval officer.

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Arafura Sea

The Arafura Sea (or Arafuru Sea) lies west of the Pacific Ocean, overlying the continental shelf between Australia and Western New Guinea (also called Papua), which is the Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean are oceans.

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Aru Islands Regency

The Aru Islands Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Atoll

An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Austral Islands

The Austral Islands (Îles Australes, officially Archipel des Australes; Tuha'a Pae.) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of the French Republic in the South Pacific.

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Australasian Mediterranean Sea

The Australasian Mediterranean Sea is a mediterranean sea located in the area between Southeast Asia and Australasia.

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Australasian snapper

The Australasian snapper (Pagrus auratus) or silver seabream is a species of porgie found in coastal waters of Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand.

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Australia (continent)

The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres. Pacific Ocean and Australia (continent) are oceania.

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Austroasiatic languages

The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.

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Austronesian peoples

The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.

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Avon (publisher)

Avon Publications is one of the leading publishers of romance fiction.

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Bali Sea

The Bali Sea (Laut Bali) is the body of water north of the island of Bali and south of Kangean Island in Indonesia.

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Banaba

BanabaThe correct spelling and etymology in Gilbertese should be Bwanaba but the Constitution of Kiribati writes Banaba.

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Banda Neira

Banda Neira (also known as Pulau Neira) is an island in the Banda Islands, Indonesia.

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Banda Sea

The Banda Sea (Laut Banda, Mar de Banda, Tasi Banda) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera and Ceram Seas.

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Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Becquerel

The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Bismarck Archipelago

The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.

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Bismarck Sea

The Bismarck Sea lies in the south-western Pacific Ocean within the Papua New Guinean exclusive economic zone.

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Bohai Sea

The Bohai Sea is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China.

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Bohol Sea

The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is a sea located between the Visayas and Mindanao islands in the Philippines.

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Borders of the oceans

The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters. Pacific Ocean and borders of the oceans are oceans.

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Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Buka, Bougainville

Buka is a town located on the southern coast of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea.

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Busan

Busan, officially is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024.

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California Current

The California Current (Corriente de California) is a cold water Pacific Ocean current that moves southward along the western coast of North America, beginning off southern British Columbia and ending off southern Baja California Sur.

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Callao

Callao is a Peruvian seaside city and region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area.

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Cape Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.

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Catamaran

A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.

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Cebu City

Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.

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Celebes Sea

The Celebes Sea (Dagat Selebes) or Sulawesi Sea (Laut Sulawesi; Laut Sulawesi) of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain, on the south by Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula, and the west by northern Kalimantan in Indonesia.

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Challenger Deep

The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point of the seabed of Earth, located in the western Pacific Ocean at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, in the ocean territory of the Federated States of Micronesia.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Chilean Sea

The Chilean Sea is the portion of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the Chilean mainland.

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Circumnavigation

Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Comoros

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.

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Cook Islands

The Cook Islands (Rarotongan: Kūki ‘Airani; Kūki Airani) is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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Coriolis force

In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial (or fictitious) force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.

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Crab claw sail

The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges.

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Dalian

Dalian is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin).

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Dead zone (ecology)

Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.

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Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro (d. 16 August 1533) was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer who worked most of his life in Spain, where he was known as Diego Ribero.

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Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began being discharged into the Pacific Ocean on 11 March 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster triggered by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

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Drake Passage

The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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East China Sea

The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.

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East Pacific Rise

The East Pacific Rise (EPR) is a mid-ocean rise (usually termed an oceanic rise and not a mid-ocean ridge due to its higher rate of spreading that results in less elevation increase and more regular terrain), at a divergent tectonic plate boundary, located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

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Easter Island

Easter Island (Isla de Pascua; Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.

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Eastern Hemisphere

The Eastern Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth which is east of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and west of the antimeridian (which crosses the Pacific Ocean and relatively little land from pole to pole).

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El Niño–Southern Oscillation

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Extratropical cyclone

Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth.

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Felsic

In geology, felsic is a modifier describing igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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First Kamchatka Expedition

The First Kamchatka Expedition was the first Russian expedition to explore the Asian Pacific coast.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Flores Sea

The Flores Sea covers of water in Indonesia.

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Fobos-Grunt

Fobos-Grunt or Phobos-Grunt (Фобос-Грунт, where грунт refers to the ground in the narrow geological meaning of any type of soil or rock exposed on the surface) was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.

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Francisco Serrão

Francisco Serrão (died 1521) was a Portuguese explorer and a possible cousin of Ferdinand Magellan.

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French Polynesia

French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.

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Gambier Islands

The Gambier Islands are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Great Northern Expedition

The Great Northern Expedition (Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of the largest exploration enterprises in history, mapping most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and some parts of the North American coastline, greatly reducing "white areas" on maps.

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Great Pacific garbage patch

The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch’) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.

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Gulf of Anadyr

The Gulf of Anadyr, or Anadyr Bay (Анадырский залив), is a large bay on the Bering Sea in far northeast Siberia.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia.

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Gulf of Panama

The Gulf of Panama (Golfo de Panamá) is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Panama, where most of eastern Panama's southern shores adjoin it.

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Gulf of Papua

The Gulf of Papua is located in the southern coast region of New Guinea.

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Gulf of Thailand

The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula.

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Gulf of Tonkin

The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China.

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Haiphong

Haiphong (Hải Phòng) is the third-largest city in Vietnam and is the principal port city of the Red River Delta.

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Halmahera Sea

The Halmahera Sea is a regional sea located in the central eastern part of the Australasian Mediterranean Sea.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain

The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class.

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HMS Challenger (1858)

HMS Challenger was a ''Pearl''-class corvette of the Royal Navy launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard.

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Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC; Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), commonly referred to by its former name Saigon (Sài Gòn), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Hotspot (geology)

In geology, hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle.

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Humboldt Current

The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.

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Hydrosphere

The hydrosphere is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet, or natural satellite.

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Hypoxia (environmental)

Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx. Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean are oceans and oceans surrounding Antarctica.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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International Date Line

The International Date Line (IDL) is the line between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.

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Island Melanesia

Island Melanesia is a subregion of Melanesia in Oceania.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

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Jakarta

Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Java Sea

The Java Sea (Laut Jawa, Segara Jawa) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east.

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Jet stream

Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of the Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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Johor Bahru

Johor Bahru, colloquially referred to as JB, is the core city of Johor Bahru District, and the capital city of the state of Johor, Malaysia (the second-largest district in the country, by population).

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Jorge Álvares

Jorge Álvares (died 8 July 1521) was a Portuguese explorer.

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Juan de Fuca Ridge

The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a mid-ocean spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, named after Juan de Fuca.

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Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano (Elkano in modern Basque; sometimes given as del Cano; 1486/1487 – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer of Basque origin from Getaria, part of the Crown of Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the Spanish ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan.

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Keelung

Keelung (Hokkien: Ke-lâng), Chilung or Jilong, officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan.

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Kermadec Islands

The Kermadec Islands (Rangitāhua) are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga.

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Kiribati

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Ribaberiki Kiribati),.

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Kiritimati

Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands.

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Koro Sea

The Koro Sea or Sea of Koro is a sea in the Pacific Ocean between Viti Levu island, Fiji to the west and the Lau Islands to the east, surrounded by the islands of the Fijian archipelago.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.

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Kuroshio Current

The, also known as the Black Current or is a north-flowing, warm ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean basin.

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Lagoon

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.

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Land and water hemispheres

The land hemisphere and water hemisphere are the hemispheres of Earth containing the largest possible total areas of land and ocean, respectively. Pacific Ocean and land and water hemispheres are oceans.

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Lapita culture

The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE.

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Lashed-lug boat

Lashed-lug boats are ancient boat-building techniques of the Austronesian peoples.

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Lesser Sunda Islands

The Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Sunda Kecil, Tetun: Illá Sunda ki'ik sirá; Balinese: Kapuloan Sunda cénik), now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands (Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, or "Southeast Islands"), are an archipelago in Indonesian archipelago.

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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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List of ports and harbors of the Pacific Ocean

This table of major ports and harbours on the Pacific Ocean can be sorted by continent, body of water or political jurisdiction.

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List of seas on Earth

This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Molinos, Chile

Los Molinos is a Chilean village and harbour in the commune of Valdivia in Valdivia Province, Los Ríos Region.

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.

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Louisville Ridge

The Louisville Ridge, often now referred to as the Louisville Seamount Chain, is an underwater chain of over 70 seamounts located in the Southwest portion of the Pacific Ocean.

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Luís Vaz de Torres

Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607), was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer of a Spanish expedition noted for the first recorded European navigation of the strait that separates the Australian mainland from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait).

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Mafic

A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron.

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Magellan expedition

The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the MagellanElcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Makatea

Makatea, or Mangaia-te-vai-tamae, is a raised coral atoll in the northwestern part of the Tuamotus, which is a part of the French overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.

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Malaspina Expedition

The Malaspina Expedition (1789–1794) was a five-year maritime scientific exploration commanded by Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia.

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Manganese nodule

Polymetallic nodules, also called manganese nodules, are mineral concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Manila Bay

Manila Bay (Look ng Maynila) is a natural harbor that serves the Port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines.

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Manila galleon

The Manila galleon (Galeón de Manila; Galyon ng Maynila), originally known as La Nao de China, and Galeón de Acapulco,.

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Manus Island

Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.

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Mar de Grau

The Mar de Grau (Grau's Sea) is the official name for the body of water in the Pacific Ocean under the control of the South American country of Peru.

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Mare clausum

Mare clausum (legal Latin meaning "closed sea") is a term used in international law to mention a sea, ocean or other navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a state that is closed or not accessible to other states.

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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

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Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.

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Marine debris

Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created solid material that has deliberately or accidentally been released in seas or the ocean.

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Marine pollution

Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.

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Maris Pacifici

Maris Pacifici, more accurately named the Descriptio Maris Pacifici ("Description of the Pacific Ocean"), was the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed.

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Maritime Southeast Asia

Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.

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Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands (Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te HenuaEnana (North Marquesan) and Te FenuaEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Mars 96

Mars 96 (sometimes called Mars-8) was a failed Mars mission launched in 1996 to investigate Mars by the Russian Space Forces and not directly related to the Soviet Mars probe program of the same name.

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Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller (– 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar.

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Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Melanesians

Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Micronesia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of approximately 2,000 small islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Miguel López de Legazpi

Miguel López de Legazpi (12 June 1502 – 20 August 1572), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century.

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Mikhail Tikhanov

Mikhail Tikhonovich Tikhanov (Михаил Тихонович Тиханов; 1789–1862) was a Russian artist who accompanied Captain Vasily Golovnin's circumnavigation aboard the frigate Kamchatka.

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Molucca Sea

The Molucca Sea (Indonesian: Laut Maluku) is located in the western Pacific Ocean, around the vicinity of Indonesia, specifically bordered by the Indonesian Islands of Celebes (Sulawesi) to the west, Halmahera to the east, and the Sula Islands to the south.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Nagoya

is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city proper with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11million.

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Nakhodka

Nakhodka (p) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans by the Scotia Arc

The natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans by the Scotia arc (in Spanish: Delimitación natural entre los océanos Pacífico y Atlántico Sur por el arco de las Antillas Australes) is the title of a scientific theory developed in Chile in which it was postulated that the boundary between the Southeast Pacific Ocean and the Southwest Atlantic Ocean would not be the meridian of the Cape Horn, but rather the Scotia Arc, an underwater orographic chain which links the Tierra del Fuego archipelago with the Antarctic continent.

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Natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans by the Shackleton Fracture Zone

The natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans by the Shackleton Fracture Zone is the title of a scientific theory developed in Chile and other countries in which it is postulated that the boundary between the southeastern Pacific Ocean and the southwestern Atlantic Ocean would not be the so-called Cape Horn meridian, but is the Shackleton Fracture Zone, mid-oceanic ridge and submarine orographic chain which links the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago with the Antarctic continent.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Negrito

The term Negrito refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North Equatorial Current

The North Equatorial Current (NEC) is a westward wind-driven current mostly located near the equator, but the location varies from different oceans.

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North Island

The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons and have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx. Pacific Ocean and ocean are oceans.

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Ocean current

An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences.

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Ocean gyre

In oceanography, a gyre is any large system of circulating ocean surface currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Osaka

is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).

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Outrigger boat

Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull.

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Overfishing

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.

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Pacific Alliance

The Pacific Alliance (Alianza del Pacífico) is a Latin American trade bloc, formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, which all border the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Asia

Pacific Asia is the region along the east coast of Asia bordering the western Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific coast

Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific hurricane

A Pacific hurricane is a tropical cyclone that develops within the northeastern and central Pacific Ocean to the east of 180°W, north of the equator.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, 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.

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Pacific Proving Grounds

The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962.

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Pacific Rim

The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Pacific-Antarctic Ridge

The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR, Antarctic Pacific Ridge, South Pacific Rise, South Pacific Ridge) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean, separating the Pacific Plate from the Antarctic Plate.

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Pacific/Chocó natural region

The Pacific/Chocó region is one of the five major natural regions of Colombia.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Panama City

Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Panthalassa

Panthalassa, also known as the Panthalassic Ocean or Panthalassan Ocean (from Greek πᾶν "all" and θάλασσα "sea"), was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, the latest in a series of supercontinents in the history of Earth.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Pearl

A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids.

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Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (Pedro Fernández de Quirós) (1563–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Philippine Sea

The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pierre-Antoine Véron

Pierre-Antoine Véron (1736–1770) was a French astronomer and mathematician.

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Pitcairn Islands

The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

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Policarpo Toro

Policarpo Toro Hurtado (born in Melipilla, Chile on February 6, 1856 – died 1921 in Santiago, Chile) was a Chilean naval officer.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Portuguese Malacca

Portuguese control of Malacca –a city on the Malay Peninsula– spanned a 130 year period from 1511 to 1641 as a possession of the Portuguese East Indies.

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Rapa Nui people

The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui:, Spanish) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island.

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Remote Oceania

Remote Oceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro from the Marianas Islands, all Micronesian Islands (such as the Caroline Islands including Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae and the Line Islands including Kiribati), south-eastern Island Melanesia and islands in the open Pacific east of the Solomon Islands: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu.

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Revista de Marina

Revista de Marina is a bimonthly magazine published by the Chilean Navy since 1885.

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Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes.

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Rodinia

Rodinia (from the Russian родина, rodina, meaning "motherland, birthplace") was a Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic supercontinent that assembled 1.26–0.90 billion years ago (Ga) and broke up 750–633 million years ago (Ma).

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Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).

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Salish Sea

The Salish Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Samoa

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Santa Cruz Islands

The Santa Cruz Islands form an archipelago in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands.

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Savu Sea

The Savu Sea (or the Sawu Sea) (Laut Sawu, Mar de Savu, Tasi Savu) is a small sea within Indonesia named for the island of Savu (Sawu) on its southern boundary.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East.

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Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.

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Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface.

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Seamount

A seamount is a large submarine landform that rises from the ocean floor without reaching the water surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet, or cliff-rock.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seram Sea

The Seram Sea or Ceram Sea (Laut Seram) is one of several small seas between the scattered islands of Indonesia.

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Seto Inland Sea

The, sometimes shortened to the Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, three of the four main islands of Japan.

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Seven Seas

"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. Pacific Ocean and Seven Seas are oceans.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Sibuyan Sea

The Sibuyan Sea is a small sea in the Philippines that separates the Visayas from the northern Philippine island of Luzon.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sirena Deep

The Sirena Deep, originally named the HMRG Deep, was discovered in 1997 by a team of scientists from Hawaii.

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Society Islands

The Society Islands (Îles de la Société, officially Archipel de la Société; Tōtaiete mā) are an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of Tahiti, Mookinaorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Huahine.

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, Islands of Destiny, Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is a country consisting of 21 major islands Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira, Santa Isabel, Choiseul, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Rennell, Vella Lavella, Vangunu, Nendo, Maramasike, Rendova, Shortland, San Jorge, Banie, Ranongga, Pavuvu, Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Tetepare, (which are bigger in area than 100 square kilometres) and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.

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Solomon Sea

The Solomon Sea is a sea located within the Pacific Ocean.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.

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South Equatorial Current

The South Equatorial Current are ocean currents in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean that flow east-to-west between the equator and about 20 degrees south.

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South Pacific tropical cyclone

A South Pacific tropical cyclone is a non-frontal, low pressure system that has developed, within an environment of warm sea surface temperatures and little vertical wind shear aloft in the South Pacific Ocean.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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South Seas

Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. Pacific Ocean and south Seas are oceania.

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Southeast Indian Ridge

The Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. Pacific Ocean and southern Ocean are oceans and oceans surrounding Antarctica.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Spanish East Indies

The Spanish East Indies were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed through the captaincy general in Manila for the Spanish Crown, initially reporting to Mexico City, then Madrid, then later directly reporting to Madrid after the Spanish American Wars of Independence.

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Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest

During the Age of Discovery, the Spanish Empire undertook several expeditions to the Pacific Northwest of North America.

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Starbuck Island

Starbuck Island (or Volunteer Island) is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific, and is part of the Central Line Islands of Kiribati.

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Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.

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Strait of Malacca

The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean).

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Sulu Sea

The Sulu Sea (Dagat Sulu; Tausug: Dagat sin Sūg; Laut Sulu) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago.

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Sundaland

Sundaland (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of Southeast Asia corresponding to a larger landmass that was exposed throughout the last 2.6 million years during periods when sea levels were lower.

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Swordfish

The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples

Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.

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Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Terra Australis

Terra Australis (Latin) was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries.

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Tianjin

Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.

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Timor Sea

The Timor Sea (Laut Timor, Mar de Timor, Tasi Mane or Tasi Timór) is a relatively shallow sea in the Indian Ocean bounded to the north by the island of Timor with Timor-Leste to the north, Indonesia to the northwest, Arafura Sea to the east, and to the south by Australia.

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Tokelau

Tokelau (known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.

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Tonga Trench

The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes (ˈzen̪ad̪ kes), is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Trade winds

The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), was a proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical cyclone basins

Traditionally, areas of tropical cyclone formation are divided into seven basins.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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Tuamotus

The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands (Îles Tuamotu, officially Archipel des Tuamotu) are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Tuna

A tuna (tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family.

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Tuvalu

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.

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Typhoon

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least.

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University of British Columbia Press

The University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) is a university press that is part of the University of British Columbia.

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University of Hawaiʻi Press

The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.

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University of Minnesota Press

The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.

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Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was a NASA-operated orbital observatory whose mission was to study the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the protective ozone layer.

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USS Tuscarora

The first USS Tuscarora was a Mohican-class sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Vanuatu

Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu; Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.

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Visayan Sea

The Visayan Sea is a sea in the Philippines surrounded by the islands of the Visayas.

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Vitus Bering

Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741),All dates are here given in the Julian calendar, which was in use throughout Russia at the time.

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Vladivostok

Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.

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Volcanism

Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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War of the Pacific

The War of the Pacific (Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Nitrate War (Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884.

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Westerlies

The westerlies, anti-trades, or prevailing westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.

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Wet season

The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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Willem Janszoon

Willem Janszoon, sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz., was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor.

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Yap

Yap (Waqab, sometimes written as, or) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State.

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Year

A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.

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Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea.

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Yokohama

is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality.

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Zona Sur

Zona Sur (Southern Zone) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.

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15th parallel north

The 15th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 15 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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180th meridian

The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian 180° both east and west of the prime meridian in a geographical coordinate system.

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1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident

The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier.

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45th parallel north

The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator.

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50th parallel south

The 50th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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5th parallel north

The 5th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 5 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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60th parallel south

The 60th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees south of Earth's equatorial plane.

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See also

Asia

• Asia
• Asia Security Conference
• Asian Century
• Countries in Asia
• Date and time notation in Asia
• Demographics of Asia
• Dependent territories in Asia
• Economy of Asia
• Education in Asia
• Geography of Asia
• History of Asia
• List of Asian countries by population
• List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia
• Outline of Asia
• Pacific Ocean
• Politics of Asia
• Regions of Asia
• Telephone numbers in Asia
• World Forum for Democratization in Asia

North America

• Armorial of North America
• Countries in North America
• Culture of North America
• Dependent territories in North America
• Economy of North America
• Electrical wiring in North America
• Flags of North America
• Geography of North America
• History of North America
• Librarians in North America
• List of North American countries by population
• List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America
• North America
• Outline of North America
• Pacific Ocean
• Politics of North America
• Regions of North America

Oceania

• Armorial of Oceania
• Asia–Pacific
• Asia-Pacific
• Australia (continent)
• Countries in Oceania
• Culture of Oceania
• Demographics of Oceania
• Dependent territories in Oceania
• Economy of Oceania
• Flags of Oceania
• Geography of Oceania
• History of Oceania
• Japanese New Zealanders
• List of Oceanian countries by population
• List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Oceania
• Oceania
• Outline of Oceania
• Outlying Oceania
• Pacific Ocean
• Politics of Oceania
• Regions of Oceania
• Sahul
• South Seas

Oceans surrounding Antarctica

• Antarctic sea ice
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Southern Ocean

South America

• Confidence-building measures in South America
• Countries in South America
• Demographics of South America
• Dependent territories in South America
• Economy of South America
• Fauna of Guyana
• Flags of South America
• Geography of South America
• History of South America
• List of South American countries by population
• List of sovereign states and dependent territories in South America
• Outline of South America
• Pacific Ocean
• Politics of South America
• Regions of South America
• South America
• South American Americans
• South American land mammal age

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean

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