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The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
Uninhabited Pacific islands of the United States (10 C, 10 P) V. Uninhabited islands of Vanuatu (32 P) Pages in category "Uninhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean"
Toggle Pacific Ocean subsection. 5.1 Along the coast of the Americas. ... Islands of the Southern Ocean: Antarctica. Aagaard Islands; Afuera Islands; Allison Islands;
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 the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
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Uninhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean (23 C, 23 P) + Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act (18 C, 123 P) B. Islands of the Bering Sea (6 C, 30 P) C.
The world got its first glimpse at the newest island in the South Pacific this week. Photographer and hotelier GP Orbassano, who lives on the island of Tonga, took a trip to the newly-formed ...
Nauru was one of three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean, along with Banaba (Ocean Island), in Kiribati, and Makatea, in French Polynesia. The phosphate reserves on Nauru are now almost entirely depleted. Phosphate mining in the central plateau has left a barren terrain of jagged limestone pinnacles up to 15 m (49 ft) high.