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3 days ago · Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the 60° S parallel in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east. Its area, excluding adjacent seas, encompasses about 62.5 million square miles.
- Fiji
Fiji is a country and archipelago in the South Pacific...
- Islands
Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It...
- Temperature and Salinity
Pacific Ocean - Temperature, Salinity, Depth: The oceans...
- Tides
Pacific Ocean - Tides, Currents, Waves: In contrast to the...
- The Trade Winds
Pacific Ocean - Trade Winds, Climate, Marine Life |...
- Study and Exploration
Pacific Ocean - Exploration, Islands, Marine Life: The...
- Mariana Trench
Mariana Trench, deep-sea trench in the floor of the western...
- Tonga
Tonga, a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean...
- Aleutian Trench
Table of Contents Aleutian Trench, submarine trench located...
- Middle America Trench
Middle America Trench, submarine depression in the Pacific...
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5 days ago · Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.
1 day ago · Since then, 6 tropical storms or hurricanes have formed that did not receive a storm name. (Note: The "2006 Central Pacific cyclone" is excluded, as its status has never been officially determined.) Tropical Storm 4 (1962) Tropical Storm 8 (1962) Tropical Storm Four (1963) "1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane".
6 hours ago · The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples ). [1] They are spoken by about 328 million people (4.4% of the world population ).
2 days ago · Hawaii ( / həˈwaɪ.i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [9] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics .
3 days ago · Pacific Ocean - Trade Winds, Climate, Marine Life | Britannica. Geography & Travel Physical Geography of Water Oceans & Seas. The trade winds. in Pacific Ocean in Climate. Written by. Joseph R. Morgan. Associate Professor of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Coeditor of Atlas for Marine Policy in Southeast Asian Seas.
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3 days ago · 太平洋 （英語： Pacific Ocean ）是 地球 上 五大洋 中面积最大的 洋 ，面積1.6525億平方公里，它從 北冰洋 一直延伸至 南冰洋 ，其西面为 亞洲 、其西南面為 大洋洲 ，東面为 美洲 ，覆蓋着地球約46%的水面及約32%的總面積，比地球上所有陸地面積的總和還要大 [1] 。 赤道 将太平洋分為 北太平洋 及 南太平洋 。 北面連接 白令海峽 ，南面則以南緯60度為界。 位于北太平洋西侧的 馬里亞納海溝 是地球表面最深的位置。 海沟最大深度为海平面下 10,911米（35,797英尺）。 [2] 太平洋之名稱起源自拉丁文「Mare Pacificum」，意為「靜海」，由航海家 麥哲倫 命名。
