Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean-Borders the East; The Pacific Ocean-Borders the West; The Gulf of Mexico-Borders Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida; The Bering Sea-By Alaska; and The Arctic Ocean-By Alaska
Pacific Ocean
it is the Atlantic and pacific oceans
There is (not approx) 17,543,940,979,332,434 gallons of water within the Atlantic Ocean region. Seventeen Quadrillion Gallons! The Pacific Ocean would be around the 35,000,000,000,000,000 mark.
The Japanese planned on attacking the Aleutian Islands to combat the "island hopping" strategy that Douglas MacArthur was using in the Pacific Ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan
I would have to say that it was Captain James Cook.
I would have to say that it was Captain James Cook.
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a: the Pacific Ocean was named after Ferdinand Magellan the famous explorer.
Magellan was an explorer born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. He was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the world. He named the Pacific Ocean Pacific. Balboa was a Spanish explorer who first sailed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain. He was the first to see, not cross, the Pacific Ocean which at that time was called the Ocean Sea.
He was the first Europen explorer to see the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean.