It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

" From sea to shining sea " is an American idiom meaning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ( or vice versa ).

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

In the southwest, the Drake Passage connects it to the Pacific Ocean.

Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by typhoons between December and March.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* 1942 – World War II: The two-person crew of the U. S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

The underground ocean, discovered in 2007, has been formed when the plate carrying the Pacific Ocean bottom gets dragged and ends up under the continental plate.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

The Treaty of 1818 established joint U. S. – British occupancy of territory west of the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean.

Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, changing their velocity by.

After successful parachute deployment and less than fourteen minutes after reentry began, the Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Christmas Island 290 hours, 37 minutes, 6 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

The Ranch encompasses almost one fifth of Orange County, from the Pacific Ocean and Newport Harbor, Laguna Beach, and Santa Ana Canyon, to the boundary of the Cleveland National Forest.

Its AOR encompasses the Pacific Ocean from Antarctica at 092 ° W, north to 8 ° N, west to 112 ° W, northwest to 50 ° N / 142 ° W, west to 170 ° E, north to 53 ° N, northeast to 65 ° 30 ' N / 169 ° W, north to 90 ° N, the Arctic Ocean west of 169 ° W and east of 100 ° E ; the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Japan ; the countries of Southeast Asia and the southern Asian landmass to the western border of India ; the Indian Ocean east and south of the line from the India / Pakistan coastal border west to 068 ° E, south to 5 ° S / 068 ° E, west to 5 ° S / 059 ° E, south to 8 ° S / 059 ° E, southwest to 11 ° S / 054 ° E, west to 11 ° S / 042 ° E, and south along 042 ° E to Antarctica ; Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.

In ancient times, laurel forests ( shoyojurin ) were the predominant vegetation type in the Taiheiyo evergreen forests ecoregion of Japan, which encompasses the mild temperate climate region of southeastern Japan's Pacific coast.

This was formally established in 2005 and now encompasses the Americas, Asia Pacific ( including Australia ) and Europe ( including the UK ).

Located north of San Diego County and stretching from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, the District's service area encompasses the southern half of Orange County, one of California's most scenic and rapidly growing regions.

It encompasses the western part of the state of Oregon, from the summit of the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean.

All of these tropical cyclones formed in the eastern north Pacific tropical cyclone basin, which encompasses the Pacific Ocean north of the equator east of 140 ° W.

The district encompasses a 62-mile area bridging King County, Washington and Pierce County, Washington, and serves approximately 70, 500 residents in Auburn, Algona, Pacific, Lake Tapps, and a small portion of students from Kent, Federal Way, as well as a large portion of unincorporated area in King County.

Covering approximately 22 % of Earth's surface, the Atlantic is second in size to the Pacific.

The country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

The ocean ecosystem has likely changed since the prewhaling era, making a return to prewhaling numbers infeasible ; many marine ecologists argue that existing gray whale numbers in the eastern Pacific Ocean are approximately at the population's carrying capacity.

Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Its population is approximately 58 percent indigenous Nauruan and 26 percent other Pacific Islander, with sizable minorities of both Europeans and Chinese, each numbering about 8 percent respectively.

As of September 2008, approximately 600 NZDF personnel served overseas in the South Pacific, Asia and Middle East areas.

Extending approximately 15, 500 kilometres ( 9, 600 mi ) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60 ° S ( older definitions extend it to Antarctica's Ross Sea ), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 ° N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19, 800 kilometres ( 12, 300 mi ) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia – halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is approximately 622 million cubic km.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

The primary source of precipitation in Salt Lake City is massive Pacific storms that move in from the Pacific Ocean along the jet stream from approximately October through May.

At the proposed site, located approximately 26 leguas ( Spanish Leagues ) north of San Diego, 18 leagues south of San Gabriel, and half a league from the Pacific Ocean, an enramada ( arbor ) was constructed, two bronze bells were hung from the branch of a nearby tree, and a wooden cross was erected.

The Tasman Sea is a southwesterly sea of the South Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand, approximately across.

The Salt Lake Valley receives approximately 15 inches ( 380 mm ) of precipitation annually, usually with more on the east side and less on the west side, as most storms come from the Pacific Ocean and the west side is in the rain shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains.

The valley stretches approximately from northwest to southeast inland and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast.

The community of Huron was founded in 1888 as a water stop along the Union Pacific Railroad ’ s western route, approximately 15 miles northeast of Coalinga.

The city lies on the northeast shore of the Eel River ( approximately from where it enters the Pacific Ocean ), and is on U. S. Route 101.

* January 8, 2007 – On January 8, 2007 at approximately 5: 00 pm a fire started in the vicinity of Bluffs Park, south of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

There are approximately 800 residents exposed to sound levels of 60 CNEL or above, making Pacific Grove noticeably more quiet than its neighbor Monterey, which has more tourist traffic and more through traffic ( Hogan, 1980 ).

El Granada is located at ( 37. 503766 ,-122. 473230 ), on the less densely populated Pacific coast side of San Mateo County, approximately south of San Francisco and north of Santa Cruz, California.

It is approximately south of San Jose, California, north of Gilroy, California, and inland from the Pacific Coast.

It is approximately inland from the Pacific Ocean coast.

The dam has been owned by Pacific Power since 1930 and still produces electricity that supplies approximately 4, 000 Bend households.