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Français : Carte du Pacifique montrant la Polynésie occidentale et les différentes exclaves polynésiennes (en rouge). La zone en rouge clair correspond à la zone originelle de peuplement de Polynésie, d'où sont parties les populations qui habitent les exclaves polynésiennes.
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 ...
The Clipperton fracture zone is the southernmost of the north east Pacific Ocean lineations. It begins east-northeast of the Line Islands and ends in the Middle America Trench off the coast of Central America, [4] [11] [6] forming a rough line on the same latitude as Kiribati and Clipperton Island, from which it gets its name.
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.
In 2020, plans were formed to create a Rugby League team in New Caledonia, Pacifique Trieze, [160] to eventually join the majority Australian Queensland Cup. New Caledonia also has a national synchronised swimming team, which tours abroad. The "Tour Cycliste de Nouvelle-Calédonie" is a multi-day cycling stage race that is held usually in October.
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.
Phosphate mining drew hundreds of people to Makatea in the years before the French Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique (CEP) started nuclear experiments. For over two decades or even longer, Makatea was a very active little island because of the ships arriving to load phosphate and to bring supplies and food to the many workers and their ...