| Chile |
a South American country on the Pacific coast south of Peru. |
| China |
a large, populous East Asian country on the Pacific coast; People's Republic of China. [1/2 definitions] |
| chinook salmon |
a large salmon of the northern Pacific that has usu. reddish flesh; king salmon. |
| cockatoo |
any of various crested, mostly white parrots of Australia and other parts of the South Pacific. |
| Colombia |
a South American country between Venezuela and the Pacific Ocean. |
| Colorado |
a river that flows southwest from this state to the Pacific. [1/2 definitions] |
| Columbia |
a river that flows from British Columbia, along the Washington-Oregon border, and into the Pacific. [1/2 definitions] |
| 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. |
| dogfish |
any of several small sharks found in coastal waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. [1/2 definitions] |
| East China Sea |
an extension of the North Pacific between China, Korea, and Japan. |
| Ecuador |
a South American country on the Pacific coast between Colombia and Peru. |
| 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. |
| El Salvador |
a Central American country on the Pacific coast south of Guatemala. |
| Fiji |
a southwestern Pacific island country northeast of Australia. |
| 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. |
| gray whale |
a medium-sized mostly gray or black whalebone whale of the North Pacific. |
| 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. |
| Guam |
the largest of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, and a U.S. territory. |
| halibut |
any of several large, edible flatfishes found in the northern Atlantic or Pacific. |
| Hawaii |
a North Pacific island state of the United States. [1/2 definitions] |
| HI |
abbreviation of "Hawaii," a North Pacific island state of the United States. |