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Bookmark or Share- Pacific Islands | Countries, Map, & Facts | BritannicaPacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.
- Pacific Ocean - WorldAtlasMap showing the location of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean covers approximately 63.8 million square miles, about 5.8 million square miles larger than the Earth’s total landmass. It extends from the Arctic region in the north to the Antarctic region in the south, spanning 32% of the total earth’s surface.
- Australia and Oceania: Human Geography - National Geographic SocietyOceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. It includes Australia, the smallest continent in terms of total land area. Most of Australia and Oceania is under the Pacific, a vast body of water that is larger than all the Earth’s continental landmasses and islands combined.
- The Pacific Ocean—facts and information - National GeographicMarch 04, 2019. • 8 min read. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth. It spans 60 million square miles from California to China, and in certain regions extends tens of...
- Pacific Ocean | Depth, Temperature, Animals, Location, Map, & Facts ...Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the 60° S parallel in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east. Its area, excluding adjacent seas, encompasses about 62.5 million square miles.
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