Pacific Ocean
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- Names
Pacific Ocean
Pacífico, Océano
Pazifischer Ozean
Pacifico, l'Oceano
Mar del Sur, El
South Sea
- Place Type
- ocean
- Description
- Body of water extending from Arctic to Antarctic regions, W of the Americas & E of Asia & Australasia. It covers 70,000,000 square miles and is deepest at Mariana Trench (36,198 feet). Reference is often made to the sections of the ocean on either side of the equator, the North Pacific and South Pacific.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Petit Robert II, Noms (1989); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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