South Pacific Ocean

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For about two months each year, fisherman Faustino Mauloko da Cunha and his son Zacarias spend most of their days in a dugout canoe out at sea in the South Pacific Ocean.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

The rodent lives in the tropical forests of its namesake island of Vangunu, part of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 26, 2023

The last tsunami to hit California was in January, after a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific Ocean near Tonga sent 2-foot tsunami waves barreling through the Bay Area more than 5,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Could it be possible, I thought, that Agnew's hope had been realized, and that I had been carried into the warm regions of the South Pacific Ocean?

From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by De Mille, James