Pacific Ocean

bays

beach

birth

The Pacific Ocean was born 750 million years ago at the breakup of Rodinia, although it is generally called the Panthalassa until the breakup of Pangea, about 200 million years ago.

cape

Cape Alava

cities

Columbia River Basalt Group

Columbia River Basalt Group map shows main regions of basalt exposure in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada, USA. (usgs.gov)

comparison with Panthalassa

Panthalassa was a hemisphere-sized ocean, much larger than the modern Pacific.

continuation of

Panthalassa

islands

maps

mention

When Kautz wrote of the lower Sound he meant that area closest to the Ocean. The upper Sound was near Olympia.

namesake

Pacific County, Washington

northernmost point

Bering Strait

ocean of

Earth

opposite

Atlantic Ocean

overseas collectivity

photographs

random

linked list

region

Polynesia

seas

sound

Puget Sound

spit

Plover Spit

states

straits

tagged

tags

ocean

territory

American Samoa

tributaries

vantage point

Cliff House

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98

Wikipedia

Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia) The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s five 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 the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east.