PACIFIC OCEAN WIKIPEDIA OPEN SEARCH EDIT THE REGION PACIFIC REGION NORTH PACIFIC THE PACIFIC OCEAN LARGEST OF EARTH OCEANIC THE ARCTIC OCEAN THE NORTH THE SOUTHERN OCEAN IN THE SOUTH BOUNDED ASIA AUSTRALIA IN THE WEST THE AMERICAS COORDINATES SURFACE AREA SQ MI AVERAGE DEPTH WATER VOLUME ISLANDS RING OF FIRE SQUARE KILOMETERS SQUARE DIVISION THE WORLD HYDROSPHERE WATER SURFACE TOTAL SURFACE AREA AREA THE EQUATOR SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN GALAPAGOS GILBERT ISLANDS THE SOUTH THE MARIANA TRENCH THE WESTERN POINT IN THE WORLD REACHING OF 10 METERS THE CENTER WATER HEMISPHERE HEMISPHERE PEOPLES OF ASIA OCEANIA TRAVELED PREHISTORIC TIMES EASTERN PACIFIC EUROPEANS THE EARLY SPANISH EXPLORER VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA CROSSED THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA DISCOVERED THE GREAT MAR DEL SUR CURRENT NAME PORTUGUESE EXPLORER FERDINAND MAGELLAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION WINDS PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH MEANS UNIVERSALIS COSMOGRAPHIA WALDSEEMULLER MAP NATURE PARTICULARLY POSSIBLE SHOW DISTINCT SOUTH AMERICA GENERALLY SHOWS THE FIRST TIME AMERIGO VESPUCCI MADE IN DIOGO RIBEIRO PROPER SIZE MARIS PACIFICI ORTELIUS PRINTED MAPS USS LEXINGTON AIR ATTACK MAY 1942 THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA HUMAN MIGRATIONS AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLES THE ISLAND TAIWAN MASTERED THE ART OF CANOE TRAVEL SPREAD THEMSELVES LANGUAGES SOUTH MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA WEST SOUTHEAST NEW GUINEA MELANESIA NATIVE EAST TO THE ISLANDS TRADE DEVELOPED ALL ALONG THE COAST MOZAMBIQUE THEREFORE INDONESIAN APPARENTLY ISLAMIC SETTLEMENT CANTON ARABS XU FU SEARCHING ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY ZHENG HE EXPEDITIONS THE INDIAN OCEAN EUROPEAN EXPLORATION CIRCA FIRST CONTACT NAVIGATORS EDGE PORTUGUESE ANTONIO DE ABREU FRANCISCO LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS THE MALUKU ISLANDS JORGE LVARES EXPEDITION SOUTHERN CHINA AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE THE EAST REACHED WAS TO THE ISTHMUS EAST TO WEST CASTILIAN WORLD CIRCUMNAVIGATION MAGELLAN PACIFICO SAILING STORMY CAPE THE EXPEDITION CALM THE SEA HIS HONOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HIMSELF DIED THE PHILIPPINES BASQUE NAVIGATOR JUAN SEBASTIAN ELCANO SPAIN ROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE THE FIRST WORLD THE MOLUCCAS CAROLINE ISLANDS ARU ISLANDS PAPUA SHIPS CONSISTING OF EXPLORERS MEXICO MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEGAZPI MARIANA ISLANDS THE REMAINDER THE 16TH INFLUENCE PERU ACROSS THE PACIFIC THE SPANISH EAST INDIES MANILA GALLEONS HALF CENTURIES LINKING MANILA TRADE ROUTES THE COOK ISLANDS THE SOLOMON ISLANDS THE ADMIRALTY THE QUEST TERRA AUSTRALIS SOUTHERN LAND EXPLORATIONS IN PEDRO FERNANDES DE QUEIROS PITCAIRN VANUATU TORRES STRAIT LUIS VAZ DE TORRES DUTCH SOUTHERN ENGAGED DISCOVERY WILLEM JANSZOON DOCUMENTED LANDING CAPE YORK PENINSULA ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN CIRCUMNAVIGATED PARTS THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTAL COAST TASMANIA NEW ZEALAND MARE CLAUSUM CLOSED NAVAL THE ONLY ENTRANCE THE ATLANTIC THE STRAIT TIMES SENT PREVENT THE DUTCH SPANISH PHILIPPINES THE 18TH CENTURY MARKED THE BEGINNING OF MAJOR RUSSIANS ALASKA ALEUTIAN ISLANDS FIRST KAMCHATKA EXPEDITION NORTHERN EXPEDITION THE DANISH RUSSIAN NAVY OFFICER VITUS BERING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST VANCOUVER ISLAND FRENCH SETTLED BRITISH JAMES COOK THE NORTH AMERICAN YOUNG ASTRONOMER ACCOMPANYING LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE PRECISION SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZED MALASPINA EXPEDITION VAST AREAS CAPE HORN GUAM NEW IMPERIALISM BATHYSCAPHE TRIESTE RECORD DIVE THE BOTTOM JANUARY 1960 IMPERIALISM 19TH CENTURY OCCUPATION EUROPEAN POWERS JAPAN THE UNITED CONTRIBUTIONS OCEANOGRAPHIC HMS BEAGLE CHARLES DARWIN HMS CHALLENGER USS TUSCARORA THE GERMAN GAZELLE THOUARS TAKING OVER TAHITI FRANCE LEADING POSITION IMPERIAL POWER NEW CALEDONIA PROTECTORATES NAVY EASTER ISLAND CHILEAN NAVY POLICARPO TORO NEGOTIATE INCORPORATION OF CHILE RAPANUI THE IMPERIAL NEARLY PACIFIC ISLANDS IN CONTROL UNITED THE UNITED STATES CONTROL WORLD WAR THE END OF THAT FLEET VIRTUAL MASTER OF THE OCEAN THE END FORMER COLONIES INDEPENDENT GEOGRAPHY NATIONS TERRITORIES SUNSET SEEN THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE ANVIL TOPS NEWCASTLE NSW SHORE SEPARATES NORTHERN THE ANTARCTIC REGION THE ARCTIC ENTIRE LANDMASS THE BERING SEA EXTENT SOUTHERN OCEAN 60 S DEFINITIONS ROSS SEA GREATEST WIDTH WHERE IT INDONESIA DIAMETER MARIANA TRENCH BELOW PUTTING TOTAL PLATE TECTONICS AVERAGING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN INCREASING WESTERN LIE CELEBES SEA CORAL EAST CHINA SEA PHILIPPINE SEA OF JAPAN SOUTH CHINA SULU SEA TASMAN SEA YELLOW MALACCA TORRES JOINS DRAKE PASSAGE LINK TO THE NORTH BERING STRAIT STORM CALIFORNIA STRADDLES 180TH MERIDIAN THE WEST EASTERN HEMISPHERE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN HARBORS THE SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE CROSSING TURNING THE SOUTH POLE RISE JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE THE EXPLORER INDEED ALWAYS TROPICAL STORMS BATTER THE ISLANDS LANDS FULL VOLCANOES CAUSED UNDERWATER DEVASTATED CASES THE MARTIN BORDERING SOVEREIGN NATIONS BRUNEI CAMBODIA CANADA COLOMBIA COSTA RICA ECUADOR EL SALVADOR FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIJI GUATEMALA HONDURAS KIRIBATI NORTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA MALAYSIA MARSHALL ISLANDS NAURU NICARAGUA PALAU PANAMA PAPUA NEW GUINEA PHILIPPINES RUSSIA SAMOA SINGAPORE SOLOMON ISLANDS THAILAND TONGA TUVALU UNITED STATES VANUATU VI