Pacific Ocean

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  1. An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
    — The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.

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the Pacific Ocean canonical

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cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.
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