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Port Region Country (and subdivision) Body of water Coordinates Features and notes [1] [2]Acajutla: Central America: El Salvador, Sonsonate: Corinto: Central America: Nicaragua, Chinandega
1851 map of Pacific listing colonial names of individual islands. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Australia and the islands of the Pacific have been grouped by geographers into a region called Oceania. [17] [18] It is often used as a quasi-continent, with the Pacific Ocean being the defining characteristic. [19]
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.
This is a list of cities in Oceania (including Australia) with a population of over 80,000. National and territorial capitals are shown in bold type. National and territorial capitals are shown in bold type.
List of cities, towns and villages in East Timor; List of cities and towns in Fiji; List of cities in Indonesia; List of cities and villages in Kiribati; List of cities in Papua New Guinea; List of cities in the Marshall Islands; List of cities in Nauru; List of cities in New Zealand; List of cities in Palau; List of cities, towns and villages ...
Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. [1] [2] [3] The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania, or even more narrowly for Polynesia or the Polynesian Triangle, an area bounded by the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and Easter Island.
The Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas. The Indian Ocean, the third largest, extends northward from the Southern Ocean to India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia in Asia, and between Africa in the west and Australia in the east. The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia.
[135] In the Pacific Ocean Handbook (1945), author Eliot Grinnell Mears claimed, "it is customary to exclude the Aleutians of the North Pacific, the American coastal islands and the Netherlands East Indies", and that he included Australia and New Zealand in Oceania for "scientific reasons; Australia's fauna is largely continental in character ...