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[[Image:Pacific Ocean.gif|thumb|right|Pacific Ocean]]

[[Image:Pacific Ocean.gif|thumb|right|Pacific 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_Nunez_de_Balboa|Vasco Nuñez de Balboa]] in 1513.<ref>J. H. Parry: The Age of Reconnaissance</ref> [[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_Nunez_de_Balboa|Vasco Nuñez de Balboa]] in 1513.<ref>J. H. Parry: The Age of Reconnaissance</ref> [[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]], and some speculate that it may be the [[crater]] left when the moon and Earth were separated. This is the so-called "fission" theory. <ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/origins.html</ref>  

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]], and some speculate that it may be the [[crater]] left when the moon and Earth were separated. This is the so-called "fission" theory. <ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/origins.html</ref>