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The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world.

Pacific may also refer to:

Places

Related to the Pacific Ocean

  • Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Antarctic tectonic plates
  • Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Farallon tectonic plates
  • Pacific-Kula Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Kula tectonic plates
  • Pacific Rim, political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean as well as the various island nations within the region

Places

Military history

  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater (aka Pacific Theater of Operations), the term used in the United States for all military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it during World War II
  • Pacific Ocean Areas (command), the major Allied military command in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II
  • Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, one of four major theaters of the Pacific War, between 1941 and 1945
  • Pacific War, the part of World War II — and preceding conflicts — that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, from 1937 to 1945
  • War of the Pacific, fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru, from 1879 to 1884

Art, entertainment, and media

Companies

Schools

Sports

Transportation

Airlines

Railroads and trains

Ships

  • MS Pacific, a cruise ship formerly called MS Pacific Princess
  • Pacific-class patrol boat, a class of 22 patrol boats built by Australia and donated to twelve South Pacific countries
  • SS Pacific (1849), a Collins Line transatlantic sidewheel steamship that sank off the coast of Wales in 1856
  • SS Pacific (1850), an ocean liner that sank off the coast of Washington State in 1875
  • SS Pacific (1914), later renamed Hewitt, a cargo steamship that went missing off the United States Atlantic coast in 1921

People

  • Saint Pacific (Pacificus of San Severino), Roman catholic saint (1653 – 1721)

See also