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The pacific ocean is NOT named "the south sea".
the name given to pacific ocean by balboa is the prizzano the answer in top is wrong its south you can figure the rest pleaseBalboa named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). Magellan renamed it Pacific Ocean.
The discovery of the Pacific Ocean was important because it became a route by which to navigate around the globe. Vasco Nunez de Balboa named the Pacific Ocean the South Sea, and used it as a way to get around the tip of South America.
The Great Barrier Reef is specifically located in the Coral Sea, which is part of the southern Pacific Ocean.
Peru is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Columbia east by Brazil, the south east by Bolivia, and the south by Chile. But if you are looking specifically for Oceans it is the Pacific Ocean. :)
The South Pacific is the Southern Hemisphere portion of the Pacific Ocean.
, its the atlantic Luv Kely123
The ocean that is west of South America is the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is also west of the United States.
The discovery of the Pacific Ocean was important because it became a route by which to navigate around the globe. Vasco Nunez de Balboa named the Pacific Ocean the South Sea, and used it as a way to get around the tip of South America.
The South Pacific Ocean surrounds Australia and New Zealand, and south of those areas, the salt water is named the Southern Ocean. These areas are in the Eastern Hemisphere, and are on the eastern side of Antarctica.
He named it Mar del Sur - the South Sea
New Zealand is located in the South Pacific Ocean.