pacific ocean

Noun
  1. The largest ocean in the world (synset 109405883)
    domain member region:
    • invasion of iwo, iwo, iwo jima - a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
    • battle of the philippine sea, philippine sea - a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
    is an instance of: ocean - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
    has:
    • guadalupe island - a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California
    • aleutian islands, aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
    • oceania, oceanica - a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
    • australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific
    • austronesia - islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
    • wake, wake island - an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
    • east india, east indies, malay archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
    • new guinea - a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
    • japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
    • volcano islands - a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas
    • new zealand, new zealand islands - North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
    • belau, palau, palau islands, pelew - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
    • philippine islands, philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
    • catalina island, santa catalina - an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California
    • antarctic ocean - the southern waters surrounding Antarctica
    • arafura sea - a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
    • bering sea - part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait
    • coral sea - an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
    • east china sea - part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
    • gulf of alaska - a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
    • gulf of tehuantepec - an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico
    • inland sea - an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima
    • north pacific - that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator
    • osaka bay - a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu
    • pacific coast - a coast of the Pacific Ocean
    • puget sound - an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State
    • san diego bay - a bay of the Pacific in southern California
    • san francisco bay - a bay of the Pacific in western California
    • east sea, sea of japan - an arm of the Pacific bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea, and Russia
    • sea of okhotsk - an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia
    • south china sea - a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
    • south pacific - that part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
    • tasman sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand
    • huang hai, yellow sea - part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia
    same as: pacific

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