meet at the equator, the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (or more loosely the South Seas). The Pacific Ocean can also be informally divided...
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The South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis. It included the Philippines, the Dutch...
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operations. It was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum (SPF), and changed its name in 1999 to "Pacific Islands Forum", so as to be more inclusive...
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The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including...
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the North Atlantic Pacific hurricane Pacific typhoon season South Atlantic tropical cyclone South Pacific tropical cyclone South-West Indian Ocean tropical...
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The Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad (later called the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway) was a historic 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad...
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were in the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), divided into the Central Pacific Area, the North Pacific Area and the South Pacific Area, were commanded...
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Tropical cyclone basins (redirect from South Pacific Cyclone)
Atlantic Ocean, the eastern and western parts of the northern Pacific Ocean, the southwestern Pacific, the southwestern and southeastern Indian Oceans, and the...
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The 2024 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup is the seventeenth Pacific Nations Cup (PNC) tournament, and the first with a new format design. Similar to the...
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the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater, the South West...
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Oceania (redirect from South West Pacific)
Before Europeans arrived in the area, the sea shielded Australia and south central Pacific islands from cultural influences that spread through large continental...
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States from 1947 to 1994. The Imperial Japanese South Seas Mandate had been seized by the US during the Pacific War, as Japan had administered the territory...
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United States Department of State published a document formalizing its concept of a free and open Indo-Pacific. Since then, multiple countries in regions...
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Typhoon (redirect from Pacific typhoon)
least 119 km/h (74 mph). This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, accounting for almost one third of the world's tropical cyclones...
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A Pacific hurricane is a tropical cyclone that develops within the northeastern and central Pacific Ocean to the east of 180°W, north of the equator....
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lines in the Western, Midwestern and West South Central United States. Founded in 1862, the original Union Pacific Rail Road was part of the first transcontinental...
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This article documents Pacific typhoon seasons that occurred during the middle of 19th century and earlier. The list is very incomplete; information on...
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Cathay Pacific and its only local competitor, the Jardine Matheson-owned Hong Kong Airways:: 117–118 Cathay Pacific was allocated routes to the south (including...
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Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/racial term, it is used to...
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The 2007–08 South Pacific cyclone season was a below-average season with only four tropical cyclones, forming within the South Pacific to the east of 160°E...
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Ring of Fire (redirect from Pacific Rim of Fire)
boundaries around the Pacific Ocean. These include: the Antarctic, Nazca and Cocos plates subducting beneath the South American Plate; the Pacific and Juan de Fuca...
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of the documents details a potential deployment of British naval aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific and differing visions of Indo-Pacific (Counter-PRC)...
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South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islands – including the Oceanian...
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Eastern Affairs, to Yang You-chan [ko], the South Korean ambassador to the U.S. on August 10, 1951. The Rusk documents show the negotiating position of the U...
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South West Pacific Area (SWPA) was the name given to the Allied supreme military command in the South West Pacific Theatre of World War II. It was one...
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The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises...
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Supreme Allied Commander Pacific Ocean Areas. In the other major theater in the Pacific region, known as the South West Pacific theater, Allied forces were...
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Bloop (category Pacific Ocean)
remote point in the South Pacific Ocean west of the southern tip of South America. The sound was detected by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone...
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California in 2019, according to documents released to The Drive under the Freedom of Information Act. "Our History". Pacific Basin Shipping Limited. Archived...
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counter China militarily and diplomatically in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly in the South China Sea. Tensions between Quad members and China have...
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