| Atacama |
a desert in northern Chile that lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains. |
| Atacama Desert |
an extremely arid region of northern Chile that lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains. |
| Australia |
an island continent southeast of Indonesia and between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [1/2 definitions] |
| Bering Sea |
a northern extension of the Pacific Ocean between Russia and Alaska, north of the Aleutian Islands. |
| Colombia |
a South American country between Venezuela and the Pacific Ocean. |
| Coral Sea |
an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean located off the northwestern coast of Australia, extending to the north as far as New Guinea and the Soloman Islands and to the east by Vanuatu. The sea is the location of the Great Barrier Reef. It was also the scene of a fierce naval battle between Japan and the United States in World War II. |
| El Niño |
an unusually warm Pacific Ocean current that develops near the International Date Line in the center of the ocean and flows east toward Peru and then south along the coast of South America. El Niño events, which occur every two to seven years approximately, are associated with various negative impacts including damage to the livelihoods of those dependent on fishing and disturbance to regional and global weather patterns, which in turn can increase the incidence of disease and the frequency of destructive weather events. |
| Galápagos Islands |
a group of Ecuadorian islands in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the west coast of South America, known for their large number of endemic species and their pivotal role in Charles Darwin's research. |
| Great Pacific Garbage Patch |
a vast accummulation of debris made up primarily of tiny plastic particles floating in the upper column of water in the north central region of the Pacific Ocean. |
| Humboldt Current |
a cold current of the Pacific Ocean flowing north along the coasts of Chile and Peru. |
| hurricane |
a powerful cyclonic storm that originates in the West Indian region of the Atlantic Ocean or in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean near Mexico and Central America. A hurricane is characterized by heavy rains along with winds exceeding 73 miles, or 119 kilometers, per hour. |
| International Date Line |
(sometimes l.c.) an imaginary north-south line drawn in the Pacific Ocean, roughly at the 18th meridian, on the east side of which, by international agreement, the calendar date is one day earlier than it is on the west side; date line. |
| milkfish |
a large, whitish, edible fish found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. |
| nautilus |
any of several related mollusks of the Indian or South Pacific Ocean, having a spiral, chambered shell lined with a pearly membrane; chambered nautilus; pearly nautilus. |
| North America |
the northern continent in the Western Hemisphere, lying between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
| Pacific |
of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean. [2 definitions] |
| People's Republic of China |
official name for China, a large, populous East Asian country bordering the Pacific Ocean. |
| Russia |
a European and Asian country extending from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean; formerly the largest republic of the Soviet Union. |
| Russian Federation |
a European and Asian country extending from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, formerly the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic; Russia. |
| San Francisco |
a city of central California on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and a large bay. |
| South America |
a continent in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |