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Pacific Ocean (ocean) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 00 30 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -0.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 091 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -91.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: 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. |
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| Pacific Ocean (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Pacífico, Océano (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Pacifique, Océan (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Pazifischer Ozean (C,O,German,U,N)
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| Pacifico, l'Oceano (C,V,Italian,U,N)
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| Mar del Sur, El (C,V)
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............ | named by Balboa in 1513 |
| האוקינוס השקט (C,U,Hebrew )
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| South Sea (H,V,English,U,N)
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............ | early name for the Pacific Ocean |
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