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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.

Wikipedia and Wikis

Pacific Ocean - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean

Other

NOAA PMEL Argo profiling floats
http://floats.pmel.noaa.gov/floats/
NOAA In-situ Ocean Data Viewer
http://dapper.pmel.noaa.gov/dchart/
NOAA TAO El Nino data
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/
Map South Pacific
http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/
South Pacific Organizer
http://www.southpacific.org/
NOAA Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Realtime (OSCAR)
http://www.oscar.noaa.gov/datadisplay/
EPIC Pacific Ocean Data Collection
http://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/ewb/

Keywords and Synonyms

Pacific Ocean, Pacific, The Pacific, North Pacific, Pacific Oceans, Bob Dole Memorial Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Pacific basin

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