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The '''Pacific Ocean''' is the part of the [[ocean]] between the Americas to the east, and Asia, and Australia to the west. The first European to sight the Pacific was [[Vasco Nuñez de Balboa]]. {{fact}} [[John Keats]] wrongly recorded this event in his poem [[On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer]], claiming it [[Cortez]] who discovered the Ocean.

The '''Pacific Ocean''' is the part of the [[ocean]] between the Americas to the east, and Asia, and Australia to the west. The first European to sight the Pacific was [[Vasco Nuñez de Balboa]] in 1513.* [[John Keats]] wrongly recorded this event in his poem [[On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer]], claiming it [[Cortez]] who discovered the Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean, and one of the fabled "[[seven seas]]." [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s fleet crossed it on its voyage around the world. [[Scientist]]s have calculated that it has the same volume as the [[moon]],{{fact}} and may be the [[crater]] left when the moon and Earth were separated{{fact}}.

The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean, and one of the fabled "[[seven seas]]." [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s fleet crossed it on its voyage around the world. [[Scientist]]s have calculated that it has the same volume as the [[moon]],{{fact}} and may be the [[crater]] left when the moon and Earth were separated{{fact}}.

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<references/> *J. H. Parry: The Age of Reconnaissance.

 

[[Category:Oceans]]

[[Category:Oceans]]