Pacific Ocean

 

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cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.^[1]

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the Pacific Ocean

2. An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.

• the Pacific

• (oceans) ocean; Antarctic Ocean/Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, ^{(Category: en:Oceans)}

• “Pacific Ocean”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Pacific Ocean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.