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(let’s get “specific” here)
(go clockwise facing a 2-dimensional ‘globe’)
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(the ‘pacific ocean’ is the largest of the earth’s 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 ‘asia’ and ‘australia’ in the ‘west’ and ‘the americas’ in the ‘east’)
(at 165.25 million square kilometers (63.8 million square miles) in ‘area’, this largest division of the ‘world ocean—and, in turn, the ‘hydrosphere’—covers about 46% of the Earth’s water surface and about ‘one-third’ of its ‘total surface area’, making it larger than all of the earth’s land area combined.
(the equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with 2 exceptions: the ‘galápagos’ and ‘gilbert islands’, while straddling the ‘equator’, are deemed wholly within the ‘south pacific’)
(the ‘mariana trench’ in the ‘western North Pacific’ is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,911 metres (35,797 ft))
(both the center of the ‘water hemisphere’ and the ‘western hemisphere’ are in the ‘pacific ocean’)
(though the peoples of ‘asia’ and ‘oceania’ have travelled the ‘pacific ocean’ since prehistoric times, the ‘eastern pacific’ was first sighted by Europeans in the early 16th century when Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and discovered the great “southern sea” which he named Mar del Sur.
(the ocean’s current name was coined by Portuguese explorer ‘Ferdinand Magellan’ during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favourable winds on reaching the ocean)
(he called it mar pacífico, which in both portuguese and spanish means “peaceful sea”)
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(“down by the se-a…” sings ‘sebastian the crab”)
(“care bears”)
(“ninja turtles”)
(“the little mermaid”)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥