These include Guam, in the Pacific Ocean, and Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
And more recently, in the year 2000, NASA maneuvered a satellite to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Marine biologists working in the Pacific Ocean say they found a tasty deep-sea fish that is unexpectedly thriving.
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean determine some long-distance weather patterns, which in turn affect snowfall in the West.
Even as they did so, Filipinos kept their eyes peeled on another storm looming in the Pacific Ocean.
Rescue crews have ended their search for a British sailor who fell from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
An isolated archipelago, the Galapagos are set in the Pacific Ocean more than 500 miles west of Ecuador .
Apollo 17, the last manned expedition to the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.
From his living room each morning he watches the sunrise bathe Turtle Island, 10 kilometers away in the Pacific Ocean.
The snail once found on islands in the Pacific Ocean became wiped out after another mollusc was introduced in the 1970s.
Historically strong seismic activity has been observed in the Mediterranean and North-eastern Atlantic, albeit less frequently than in the Pacific Ocean.
The river ultimately ends in the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, California.
The balloon's red and white wreckage was found in the Pacific Ocean south of the capital, Lima, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
How about if we turned that giant island of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre into a mirror or shade, or something?
At first glance, Tuvalu is an island paradise, 26 square kilometers of white sand and lush foliage in the Pacific Ocean, north of Fiji.
The researchers said that's because of Honolulu's place in the air transportation network: in the Pacific Ocean, with many connections to distant, large, and well-connected hubs.
Chavez will also have to pay far more attention to developing offshore gas plays sat deep in the Pacific Ocean rather than monetised into state coffers.
They are chemical variants of an antibiotic called rapamycin, which Wyeth researchers found in soil samples from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s.
At least two of its six tsunami-sensing buoys stationed in the Pacific Ocean were out of service on the day the notorious Indian Ocean tsunami erupted last December.
Marwell Zoo has become home to a further four species of Partula tree snail, which originate from islands in the Pacific Ocean and are extinct in the wild.
The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
In the Pacific Ocean alone around 95 percent of leatherbacks have vanished in the past 20 years due to human activity, according to the environmental group Conservation International.
Ms Hill says she was inspired to begin her campaign by her grandson, who told her about a vast floating island of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
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Most tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean and connected seas.
Seventy percent of this debris is believed to have sunk offshore, but no one knows how much of the remaining 1.5 million tons are still floating in the Pacific Ocean.
This has changed not only because of China, India and Brazil having much more weight around the table but also countries in Africa, in the Caribbean, in the Pacific Ocean now have the capacity to negotiate.
The best hope lies in trying to identify the broader changes under way - for example with the retreat of the Arctic sea-ice or the cycle of warming in the Pacific Ocean with El Nino and La Nina.
The Chinese government is spending millions of dollars on clean energy initiatives ranging from the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles in several major cities to massive wind farms in Inner Mongolia and offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
The unmanned Dragon spacecraft cast off from the International Space Station early Thursday morning and survived a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere to make an apparently flawless splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.
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Roughly 30 miles off the coast of Honshu Island in the Pacific Ocean, the Nankai Trough holds an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of gas hydrates and has received the largest investment and advanced field research of any project in the world.
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