Definition of pacific ocean Pacific ocean
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| pacific ocean - the largest ocean in the world | ||
| Pacific, Pacific Ocean | ||
| guadalupe island a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California | ||
| aleutian islands, aleutians an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska | ||
| oceania, oceanica a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) | ||
| australasia Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific | ||
| austronesia islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) | ||
| wake island, wake an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii | ||
| east india, east indies, malay archipelago a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia | ||
| new guinea a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea | ||
| japanese archipelago, japanese islands, japan lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient | ||
| volcano islands a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas | ||
| new zealand islands, new zealand North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific | ||
| belau, palau islands, pelew, palau a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States | ||
| philippine islands, philippines an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands | ||
| catalina island, santa catalina an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California | ||
| antarctic ocean the southern waters surrounding Antarctica | ||
| arafura sea a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia | ||
| bering sea part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait | ||
| coral sea a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers | ||
| east china sea part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia | ||
| gulf of alaska a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago | ||
| gulf of tehuantepec an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico | ||
| inland sea an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima | ||
| north pacific that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator | ||
| osaka bay a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu | ||
| pacific coast a coast of the Pacific Ocean | ||
| puget sound an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State | ||
| san diego bay a bay of the Pacific in southern California | ||
| san francisco bay a bay of the Pacific in western California | ||
| east sea, sea of japan an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan | ||
| sea of okhotsk an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia | ||
| south china sea a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons | ||
| south pacific that part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator | ||
| tasman sea an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand | ||
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OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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pacific ocean
The world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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pacific ocean
A name given by the Spaniards to the "Great Ocean," from the fine weather they experienced on the coast of Peru. Other parts, however, prove this a misnomer.
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The Pacific Ocean is the body of water between Asia and Australia in the west, the Americas in the east, the Southern Ocean to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north. It is the largest named ocean and it covers half the surface of the entire world. It joins the Atlantic Ocean at a line drawn due south from Cape Horn, Chile/Argentina to Antarctica, and joins the Indian Ocean at a line drawn due south from Tasmania, Australia to Antarctica.
As the Atlantic slowly gets wider, the Pacific is slowly shrinking. It does this by folding the sea floor in towards the centre of the Earth - this is called subduction. This bumping and grinding is difficult so there are many earthquakes and volcanoes when the pressure builds up and is suddenly released when the rocks break. When an earthquake happens under the sea, the sudden violent jerk causes a tsunami. This is why tsunamis are more common around the rim of the Pacific than anywhere else. Many of the Earth's volcanos are either islands in the Pacific, or are on continents within a few hundred kilometres of the ocean's edge.
