Ocean

South Pacific Ocean

The Pacific basin is so large that, as NOAA puts it, all of the world’s continents could fit inside it.

Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the South Pacific Ocean label sits at 31.3° S, 125.4° W, in the Southern and Western Hemispheres.

Also labelled Pacific Ocean, Pacific.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Easter Island — about 1,600 km east
• Desierto de Atacama — about 5,600 km east
• Antarctic Peninsula — about 5,700 km south
• North Pacific Ocean — about 6,400 km north

Play with it

• Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
• Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
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