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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:23, 2 April 2007: 1,266 × 616 (443 KB): Sémhur {{Information |Description= {{fr|Carte muette du monde, centrée sur l'océan Pacifique.}} {{en|Blank world map, centered on Pacific Ocean.}} |Source=Œuvre personnelle - Own work |Date=2007-04-02 |Author=Sémhur |Permission=Voir ci-desso
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The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
1988 - Antheaume B & Bonnemaison J. «Atlas des îles et États du Pacifique», Montpellier-Paris, coéd. GIP Reclus/Publisud 128 pp., 103 cartes couleurs 1995 - Antheaume B & Bonnemaison J. «Une aire Pacifique ?» coll. «Documentation photographique» Paris, La documentation française, photos couleurs, diapos, cartes, figures, 2 vol. 42 p ...
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Area covered by the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region Indo-Pacific. The green circle covers ASEAN.. The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two.
The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre diminishes spatially with increasing depth. Similar to all subtropical gyre systems, the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre shrinks towards its most energetic surface flows, in a northwestern direction between the Kuroshio Current and the Kuroshio Extension.