It also needed a canal across Central America so the Navy could sail quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.
VOA: special.2010.01.12
The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.
VOA: special.2009.09.22
Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
VOA: special.2010.01.11
The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.
VOA: special.2010.01.12
He said the South would accept nothing less than extending the Missouri compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.
VOA: special.2009.03.19
This wet air is then carried by trade winds to the normally rainy areas of the western Pacific, near the Equator.
VOA: special.2009.09.29
So are the coastal cities of Santa Monica and Malibu, where people like to ride surfboards on the Pacific Ocean waves.
VOA: special.2010.01.03
All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
VOA: special.2009.09.22
For many years, people had dreamed of building a canal across Central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
VOA: special.2010.08.19
About two years after a solar maximum, the Pacific experiences conditions similar to El Nino the opposite of La Nina.
VOA: special.2009.09.29
President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president."
VOA: special.2009.11.21
The problem is especially common along the west coast of Africa and in some ports in Asia and the Pacific.
VOA: special.2009.02.10
Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.
VOA: special.2010.12.16
The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.
VOA: special.2011.06.23
The only detail is a small stream of water running through the middle of the square towards the Pacific Ocean.
VOA: special.2009.12.13
The representative from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu made an emotional appeal for a treaty with legal force.
VOA: special.2010.01.19
Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
VOA: special.2009.10.21
Real La Nina events have been linked with cooler than normal temperatures on the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean.
VOA: special.2009.09.29
There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.
VOA: special.2010.08.04
He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
VOA: special.2011.05.10
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