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4 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...
- The Trade Winds
Pacific Ocean - Trade Winds, Climate, Marine Life: The trade...
- Study and Exploration
Pacific Ocean - Exploration, Islands, Marine Life: The...
- Aleutian Trench
Aleutian Trench, submarine trench located on the south side...
- Middle America Trench
Middle America Trench, submarine depression in the Pacific...
- Palau
Palau, country in the western Pacific Ocean.It consists of...
- Chatham
Chatham Islands, island group in the South Pacific Ocean,...
- Japan
Japan, island country lying off the east coast of Asia.It...
- Fiji
3 days ago · Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas . A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Oceania is a collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire ins...
- Oceania, in its most restricted meaning, includes more than 10,000 islands, with a total land area (excluding Australia but including Papua New Gui...
- Oceania has traditionally been divided into four parts: Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
3 days ago · New Caledonia, French unique collectivity in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles (1,500 km) east of Australia. It includes the island of New Caledonia (the Grande Terre [Mainland]), where the capital, Nouméa , is located; the Loyalty Islands ; the Bélep Islands ; and the Île des Pins .
3 days ago · Location of Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench and western Pacific Ocean. 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.
1 day ago · v. t. e. New Caledonia ( / ˌkælɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
2 days ago · American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 500 kilometers ...
4 days ago · The northeast Pacific Ocean is home to an astonishing array of marine creatures—spiky urchins, multiarmed sea stars, soft sea slugs the color of lemons, and barnacles with their heads glued to ...
