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This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. Birds of the Pacific Ocean (3 C, 48 P) Cetaceans of the Pacific Ocean (45 P) Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean (3 C, 169 P) Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean (2 C, 141 P) Fish of the Pacific Ocean (7 C, 750 P) Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean (1 C, 398 P)
The biodiversity of New Zealand, a large island country located in the south-western Pacific Ocean, is varied and distinctive. The species of New Zealand accumulated over many millions of years as lineages evolved in the local circumstances. New Zealand's pre-human biodiversity exhibited high levels of species endemism, but has experienced ...
Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. [ 1 ] Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
There is a variety of flora and fauna; the Tinian monarch is the island's only endemic bird species and it is threatened by habitat loss. The island has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Micronesian megapodes , white-throated ground doves , Mariana fruit doves ...
Flora and fauna [ edit ] Since the islands of Oceania were never connected by land to a continent, the flora and fauna of the islands originally reached them from across the ocean (though at the height of the last ice age sea levels were much lower than today and many current seamounts were islands, so some now isolated islands were once less ...
Baker Island. Baker Island, formerly known as New Nantucket, [1] is a small, uninhabited atoll located just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,920 miles (3,090 kilometres) southwest of Honolulu. Positioned almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, its closest neighbor is Howland Island, situated 42 mi (68 km ...
The "Pacific" consists of the archipelagos and islands of the central Pacific Ocean, and includes the following regions: Category: Flora of the Southwestern Pacific. Category: Flora of the south-central Pacific. Category: Flora of the Northwestern Pacific. Flora of the north-central Pacific — not used, as only the Hawaiian Islands archipelago ...
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 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.