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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest in the world and is bounded by Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east.
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The Ocean Between Australia and South America?
Answer One
The ocean positioned between Australia and Antarctica is the Southern Ocean. Only formally defined and named in 2000, it is sometimes known as the Great Southern Ocean.
Answer Two
Now, here is a conundrum, technically and officially this Southern Ocean does not exist.
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) publishes "The Limits of Oceans and Seas", and their current publication shows no Southern Ocean only the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans extending down to Antarctica. August bodies, such as National Geographic also take this line.
The reason why the IHO has not yet published a new "Limits of Oceans and Seas' (one was due over four years ago) is a disagreement of where this ocean should start, some say 60 degrees South, others 55 degrees and some 35 degrees. Until this disagreement is sorted out, as I said above, it doesn't exist officially.
Now, that leaves with the perplexing question is the answer above mine right or wrong?.
Well, On The Wallaby is right, mariners have for centuries recognized those waters as the Southern Ocean. Which leads me to a bigger Question, do we actually need the IHO and it's petty politics?
The name you want is the Southern Ocean.
What four states touch both Mexico and the Pacific Ocean?
Only one: the state of California. Arizona and New Mexico don't have access to the sea and Texas is on the Gulf of Mexico.
Which part of Antarctica face the Pacific Ocean?
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.
No, Italy is not bordered by any type of ocean. It is, however, bordered by five different seas. These seas are the Meditteranean Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, and the Ligurian Sea.
What area of the pacific means 'many islands'?
Polynesia means 'many islands'.
The area is scattered with over 1,000 islands.
Which contiguous states borders the pacific ocean?
California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska border the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is located in the Pacific Ocean.
Which 4 states border Atlantic ocean?
There are 14 states that border the Atlantic Ocean and two US Territories are Islands in the Atlantic.
The 14 States are:
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The Territories are:
Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
What type of government does the Pacific Islands have?
Some of the islands and groups of in Oceania are self-governing republics. Others are possessions of the United States, France, and other countries.
Which is further east the pacific ocean entrance to the panama canal or the Atlantic ocean entrance?
While the Pacific Ocean is west of the isthmus and the Atlantic to the east, the direction of the 8- to 10-hour canal passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic is from southeast to northwest. This is because of an anomaly in the shape of the isthmus at the point the canal occupies.
The answer is Pacific.
How many miles from Iowa to the Atlantic Ocean?
Depends on where in New York and Ireland, but I looked up a flight from JFK to Dublin and it was 3,176 miles.And it also depends on what route you are taking.
New York to Dublin is 3176.70 miles
Which west coast states border the Pacific Ocean?
The tasman sea
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A lot of countries!
The east coast of the Asian continent frames the western most parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Countries include Russia. Japan, the Koreas, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, The Phillipines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia.
This South American country with coasts at the Pacific and Atlantic is Colombia
Is California part of the Pacific Northwest?
California is not likely to fall into the pacific ocean.
What Pacific state touches Arizona?
Arizona borders four states including New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California. However, California is Arizona's only state bordering the Pacific coast.
Who was the woman pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the pacific ocean in 1937?
Amelia Mary Earhart
Continents - Asia, Africa, North America.
Oceans - Atlantic, Pacific, Indian.
States or Rivers - Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado.
What are the 4 largest oceans of the world?
The Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and the Arctic Oceans.
For many years only (4) four oceans were officially recognized, and then in the spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization established the Southern Ocean, and determined its limits. Those limits include all water below 60 degrees south, and some of it, like the Arctic Ocean, is frozen.so now there is 5
Was Vancouver Canada named after George Vancouver?
George Vancouver was 35 years old when he discovered Vancouver
i know this because i was looking for the same thing and found it on another website
so i thought that some people also need to know i posted it
As a native Vancouverite, the actual founding of Vancouver was sometime in the late 1800's. In the middle 1800's, there were two small settlements along Burrard Inlet, the body of water that borders Vancouver's north extremity: one was Granville, the other Hastings. They were both driven by the logging industry and ran their respective sawmills. By the mid 1880's the two communities became incorporated into the City of Vancouver. A horrific fire in 1886 destroyed virtually everything along the waterfront but with the arrival of Canada's first trans-continental railway in 1887(the CPR), lots were being sold to British immigrants. By 1910, there were nearly 100,000 people in the city. By 2000 Vancouver boasted a population of more than 750,000. Today, Greater Vancouver encompasses the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, New Westminster, Surrey and Langley with a combined population of about 2 million.
What is the salinity of the Pacific ocean?
Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt. This number varies between about 32 and 37 ppt. Rainfall, evaporation, river runoff, and ice formation cause the variations. For example, the Black Sea is so diluted by river runoff, its average salinity is only 16 ppt. Freshwater salinity is usually less than 0.5 ppt. Water between 0.5 ppt and 17 ppt is called brackish. Estuaries, where fresh river water meets salty ocean water, are examples of brackish waters. Saline waters from inland seas can have a composition that differs from that of the ocean.
How many gallons of water are there in the oceans?
The United States Geologic Survey (USGS) estimates there to be 326,000,000 cubic miles of water on the planet. A cubic mile can hold a little more than 1.1 X 1012 gallons.
The USGS also estimates that 96.5% of that water is in the planets oceans.
96.5%
X (1,100,000,000,000 gallons per cubic mile)
X (326,000,000 cubic miles)
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= 346,049,000,000,000,000,000 gallons.
Which Canadian Province is the only one bordered by the Pacific Ocean?
There are many Canadian Provinces. However, only one borders the Pacific Ocean: British Columbia. British Columbia, or BC, is the westernmost Canadian Province. It is the 3rd largest Province, occupying about 10% of Canada's land surface. It's Provincial flower is Pacific Dogwood. It is bounded by Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north, the panhandle of Alaska forms about half of the western boundary. British Colombia has over 27,000 kilometers of coastline. British Columbia is about the same size of France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It is one of the few places on this planet with a temperate rainforest. The Provincial Capitol is Victoria.
