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2 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
15 hours ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
- 4,280 m (14,040 ft)
- 165,250,000 km² (63,800,000 sq mi)
- 10,911 m (35,797 ft)
- 710,000,000 km³ (170,000,000 cu mi)
1 day ago · New Zealand, island country in the South Pacific Ocean, the southwesternmost part of Polynesia. The country comprises two main islands—the North and South islands—and a number of small islands, some of them hundreds of miles from the main group.
1 day ago · It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean.
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2 days ago · Mokoliʻi Isle near Oahu, Hawaii. Polynesia is characterized by a small amount of land spread over a very large portion of the mid- and southern Pacific Ocean. It comprises approximately 300,000 to 310,000 square kilometres (117,000 to 118,000 sq mi) of land, of which more than 270,000 km 2 (103,000 sq mi) are within New Zealand.
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4 days ago · This map illustrates the three dominant cultures in Oceania, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, and which islands occupy each region. This map successfully highlights the number of island nations/cultures and the overall size of Oceania. This easy-to-read map would be useful for students to study an oft-forgotten region.