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Sentence Examples Studies look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. China fought the Japanese Empire before joining the Allies In the Pacific War. In the untouched Shangri-la-like Kingman Reef in the Line Islands in the central Pacific, sharks make up 75 per cent of the fish biomass. Surprisingly, or not so to me, the best is the Pacific crab claw rig, closely followed by the Arab dhow or lateen sail, and the standing lug. Unlike the Atlantic however, the eastward Pacific NECC does not generally disappear. On the west coast of the United States, which is prone to Pacific Ocean tsunami, warning signs indicate evacuation routes. While the subduction zones around the Pacific are seismically active, not all earthquakes generate tsunami. Computers assist in analysing the tsunami risk of every earthquake that occurs in the Pacific Ocean and the adjoining land masses. All Pacific Rim countries collaborate in the Tsunami Warning System and most regularly practise evacuation and other procedures. Isotopic evidence suggests that during the early Oligocene, the main source of deep water was the North Pacific and the Southern Ocean. The best known of these are the Bluestreak cleaner wrasses of the genus Labroides found on coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its native habitat is the northern Pacific, primarily from the Sea of Okhotsk to Japan and Korea, though it is also found in the Bering Sea. Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Examples include the Belon oyster, eastern oyster, Olympia oyster, Pacific oyster, and the Sydney rock oyster. The current market is dominated by the larger Pacific oyster and rock oyster varieties which are farmed year round. The Pacific oyster prospered in Pendrell Sound, where the surface water is typically warm enough for spawning in the summer. The Pacific oyster has separate sexes, but hermaphrodites sometimes do exist. Most of the global Pacific oyster spat supply comes from the wild, but some is now produced by hatchery methods. Pacific oysters are nonspecific filter feeders, which means they ingest any particulate matter in the water column. Productivity of the Pacific oyster can be discussed as the amount of meat produced in relation to the amount of seed planted on cultch. Show More Sentences In New Zealand, the Pacific oyster was unintentionally introduced in 1950s, most likely through ballast water and from the hulls of ships. The Pacific oyster is one of the three main aquaculture species in New Zealand along with king salmon and the greenshell mussels. In the North Pacific, they are found in the southern Bering Sea and range as far south as the seas of Okhotsk and Japan. From there, it presumably recolonized the North Pacific Ocean during high glaciation periods in the Pleistocene via the Central American Seaway. An occasional male of the Pacific subspecies far exceeds normal dimensions. The Boone and Crockett Big Game Record book has entries for Atlantic and Pacific walrus. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to classify the Pacific Walrus as a threatened or endangered species. The Pacific Islanders and Australian Aborigines viewed whales as bringers of good and joy. McClure started out from England in December 1849, sailed the Atlantic Ocean south to Cape Horn and entered the Pacific Ocean. He sailed the Pacific north and passed through the Bering Strait, turning east at that point and reaching Banks Island. Rasmussen and two Greenland Inuit travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the course of 16 months via dog sled. In 1897, Russia occupied the Liaodong Peninsula, built the Port Arthur fortress, and based the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port. Concurrently, Russia lost virtually its entire Pacific and Baltic fleets, and also much international esteem. In the Pacific, the situation was reversed, with US submarines hunting Japanese shipping. It sank in a Pacific typhoon while carrying a cargo of iron ore from Canada to Japan. A deep sea spot in the Pacific Ocean close to the Philippines is named after the first Emden ship, and is therefore called Emdentief in German. This results in moisture rich air from the Pacific Ocean to flow from the west, resulting in frequent rainstorms and wind on the coast. A major example is the exploration of the wrecks of various warships in the Pacific Ocean. In the Pacific Theater of World War II, Japanese merchant ships rarely traveled in convoys. Other TSS areas can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, western side of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific. Show More Sentences Panama City was the Pacific terminus of the Isthmus of Panama trail across Panama. It was 1850 before enough paddle wheel steamers were available in the Atlantic and Pacific routes to establish regularly scheduled journeys. Beaver was the first coastal steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Sacagawea assisted the expedition with information and translating skills as they travelled westward towards the Pacific Ocean. The largest rail systems in the state are operated by BNSF and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ben Abruzzo was the first man to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon. The three presenters travelled 1,000 miles through the rainforests of Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile. Japan has a total of 6,852 islands extending along the Pacific coast of East Asia. The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes, tsunami and volcanoes due to its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire. In the summer, the region is cooler than the Pacific area, though it sometimes experiences extremely hot temperatures because of the foehn. Hess therefore concluded that the Atlantic Ocean was expanding while the Pacific Ocean was shrinking. Bats are sometimes numerous enough to serve as tourist attractions, and are used as food across Asia and the Pacific Rim. House sparrows were introduced in New Zealand in 1859, and from there reached many of the Pacific islands, including Hawaii. Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. Section Amabilis is found in the Pacific Coast mountains in North America and Japan, in high rainfall areas. One variety, the coast Douglas fir, grows along the Pacific Ocean from central British Columbia south to central California. In Oregon and Washington, its range is continuous from the eastern edge of the Cascades west to the Pacific Coast Ranges and Pacific Ocean. They are divided into Pacific Coast, Siberica, Spuria, Louisiana, Japanese, and other. Show More Sentences It would be several more years before the Pacific Coast of North America was mapped, dispelling lingering doubts. It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait and to the Atlantic Ocean through the Greenland Sea and Labrador Sea. Water enters from both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and can be divided into three unique water masses. During the winter, cold Alaskan winds blow over the Chukchi Sea, freezing the surface water and pushing this newly formed ice out to the Pacific. Indian Ocean warming is the largest among the tropical oceans, and about 3 times faster than the warming observed in the Pacific. The Indian Ocean's relatively calmer waters opened the areas bordering it to trade earlier than the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. From 1565 Spain established a major trading operation with the Manila Galleons in the Philippines and the Pacific. The Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in the Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific. The limits of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans have therefore been extended South to the Antarctic Continent. This difference in practice is markedly seen for the Pacific Ocean in the adjacent figure. On 16 March, the approaching winter drove him northward for rest to New Zealand and the tropical islands of the Pacific. Instead, the northern limit is with the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific and the transport of the NECC are indeed highly correlated. It crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, South America and the Atlantic Ocean. In the Late Jurassic the Pacific Plate opened originating from a triple junction between the Panthalassic Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi plates. Panthalassa can be reconstructed based on magnetic lineations and fracture zones preserved in the western Pacific. When North America and South America connected, it stopped equatorial currents from passing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Russia reached the Pacific coast in 1647 and consolidated its control over the Russian Far East in the 19th century. The Russians were in constant pursuit of a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade. In general terms, Asia is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Show More Sentences This incident implied an open connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Before the passage opened, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were separated entirely with Antarctica being much warmer and having no ice cap. Pacific models propose that people first reached the Americas via water travel, following coastlines from northeast Asia into the Americas. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the eastern Indian Ocean and nearly all of the Pacific Ocean margin are examples of active margins. The sweet potato, which is native to the Americas, was widespread in Polynesia when Europeans first reached the Pacific. The taxonomic composition of the nematode fauna in the abyssal Pacific is similar, but not identical to, that of the North Atlantic. The greatest number of monoplacophorans are from the eastern Pacific Ocean along the oceanic trenches. Seamount chains occur in all three major ocean basins, with the Pacific having the most number and most extensive seamount chains. The Pacific Ocean is also an active, shrinking oceanic basin, even though it has both spreading ridge and oceanic trenches. There are thought to be up to an estimated 50,000 seamounts in the Pacific basin. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. Flow from the Arctic Ocean Basin into the Pacific, however, is blocked by the narrow shallows of the Bering Strait. During the 1950s, these included new hydrogen bomb designs, which were tested in the Pacific, and also new and improved fission weapon designs. They are largest on average in the northwest Pacific Ocean basin and smallest in the northeastern Pacific Ocean basin. The Northeast Pacific Ocean has a broader period of activity, but in a similar time frame to the Atlantic. A similar mission was also completed successfully in the western Pacific Ocean. Other destructive Eastern Pacific hurricanes include Pauline and Kenna, both causing severe damage after striking Mexico as major hurricanes. Show More Sentences Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The Pacific Ocean lies to the southwest, the Caribbean Sea lies to the northeast, and the Gulf of Mexico lies to the north. The only cloud forest in the Pacific coastal zone of Central America is on the Mombacho volcano in Nicaragua. Lastly is the development of differences in marine assemblages and their isotopic signatures in the Caribbean from those in the Pacific. They are found off the east coast of North America, the northwest coast of Africa, and the western Pacific. The Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean is subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, just off the western coast of Central America. The Pacific Ocean floor subducted under this oceanic crust between the continents. With the formation of the Isthmus of Panama 3 million years ago, it ultimately lost its connection to the Pacific. Alpine glaciers in the coastal ranges and the Alaskan Peninsula isolated the interior of Beringia from the Pacific coast. They have a distribution ranging from coastal east Asia to the Pacific coast of South America. Two cultural components were discovered at Monte Verde near the Pacific coast of Chile. Additionally, Pacific coastal conditions tend to be unstable due to steep unstable terrain, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. These skulls originated from Mocha Island, an island just off the coast of Chile in the Pacific Ocean, formerly inhabited by the Mapuche. Among some Pacific Northwest tribes, about a quarter of the population were slaves. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one such example of this, comprising a vast region of the North Pacific Ocean rich with anthropogenic wastes. Recent studies suggest there may be 30,000 seamounts in the Pacific, about 1,000 in the Atlantic Ocean and an unknown number in the Indian Ocean. It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere and is found in both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific oceans. The Atlantic cod is one of three cod species in the genus Gadus along with Pacific cod and Greenland cod. Traditional fisheries for anchovies and sardines have also operated in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the southeast Atlantic. As a further consequence, Pacific bluefin tuna stopped moving into the region to feed. Show More Sentences For example, in the Asian northern Pacific, albacore are confined between two current systems. The northern boundary is determined by the cold North Pacific Current and the southern boundary is determined by the North Equatorial Current. These show that the split between the great albatrosses and the North Pacific albatrosses occurred by 15 mya. Several species of mollymawks and North Pacific albatrosses have face markings like eye patches or have grey or yellow on the head and nape. They were once commonly known as goonie birds or gooney birds, particularly those of the North Pacific. Studies of birds in the North Pacific have shown that ingestion of plastics results in declining body weight and body condition. For the western Pacific, the mechanism for barrier layer formation is different. Prior to El Nino, the warm pool stores heat and is confined to the far western Pacific. In particular, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has a very high level of plastic particulate suspended in the upper water column. Recently, stronger winds, especially the subtropical trade winds in the Pacific ocean have provided a mechanism for vertical heat distribution. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Northern Pacific is an island of marine debris, believed to have been collected by the North Pacific Gyre. The territory of Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins. These include some Berber languages and some languages of the American Pacific Northwest, such as Nuxalk. In the modern era, hundreds of seaside resorts now string the Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts of the United States. A large proportion of New Zealand's aid goes to these countries and many Pacific people migrate to New Zealand for employment. A seasonal workers scheme for temporary migration was introduced in 2007 and in 2009 about 8,000 Pacific Islanders were employed under it. The Pacific Northwest region of experienced 2o to 3oC of cooling and an increase in precipitation. Amongst the Polynesians of the Pacific the Ali'i occupied the traditional place of an Aristocratic class. First, the Japanese victories in the Pacific War showed Indians, Chinese, and other subject peoples that the colonial powers were not invincible. In 1565, the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route. Show More Sentences Cook was the first European to have extensive contact with various people of the Pacific. British explorer James Cook, who had been the first to map the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland, spent a dozen years in the Pacific Ocean. The longitude of Rio de Janeiro was to be found and also made geological survey of a circular coral atoll in the Pacific ocean. The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean. They took a canoe for a short reconnaissance trip, thus becoming the first Europeans to navigate the Pacific Ocean off the coast of New World. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan renamed the sea the Pacific Ocean because of its calm waters. The idea was in tune with the times and had already been discussed after Balboa's discovery of the Pacific. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to reach Tierra del Fuego just east of the Pacific side of the strait. Several weeks later, Trinidad departed and tried to return to Spain via the Pacific route. Spanish galleons travelled across the Pacific Ocean between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila. Between 1774 and 1791, the Spanish Crown sent forth a number of expeditions to explore the Pacific Northwest. The map shows, for the first time, the real extension of the Pacific Ocean. One favorite was Zheng He, who employed his authority to launch major voyages of exploration into the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. This is also a mediocre rank in the Asia Pacific region specifically, but ahead of countries like Indonesia and China. In some Pacific island cultures the banyan tree, of which the Bodhi tree is of the Sacred Fig variety, is the abode of ancestor spirits. The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, enviros cooked up a scheme to prevent nearly any tree from being cut down in the Pacific Northwest. The BRASS KEY...is the unofficial, unauthorized internet newspaper of ferroequinology in the Pacific Northwest. On October 31 of 1527 Saavedra sailed from New Spain, crossing the Pacific and touring the north of New Guinea, then named Isla de Oro. He reasoned that the trade winds of the Pacific might move in a gyre as the Atlantic winds did. Show More Sentences Tasman, his navigator Visscher, and his merchant Gilsemans also mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. In 1770, British explorer James Cook had discovered the eastern coast of Australia whilst on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific. The peoples of the Americas and the Pacific mostly retained the Neolithic level of tool technology until the time of European contact. The University of the South Pacific is the only internationally-accredited institution of higher education in Oceania. This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal. In an action with enduring historical import, Balboa claimed the Pacific Ocean and all the lands adjoining it for the Spanish Crown. The Manilla Galleons shipped goods from all over Asia across the Pacific to Acapulco on the coast of Mexico. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa, as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports and pillaging towns. Taken as a prize off the Pacific coast of Mexico, it was made of enamelled gold and bore an African diamond and a ship with an ebony hull. In the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand occupied German New Guinea and Samoa respectively. Nauru was made a combined mandate of Britain and the two Pacific Dominions. British investment helped Chile become prosperous and British seamen helped the Chilean navy become a strong force in the South Pacific. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. After the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Allies initiated several operations against Japan in the Pacific. In the Pacific it held multiple island dependencies such as American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Midway Islands, Wake Island and others. These dependencies were directly involved in the Pacific campaign of the war. The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was transferred from Japanese to US administration. It opened the way for the eventual expansion of the United States across the continent to the Pacific. In 1768 Banks sailed with Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, and took with him green glass earrings made at Soho to give to the natives. Show More Sentences I'm in my tent on the shores of the beautiful Pacific, listening to the plentiful supply of liquid sunshine coming down. The region sits in the line of several major shipping routes with the Panama Canal connecting the western Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. In the Northwest Pacific plateau there are no speakers left of the indigenous tribal languages from that area, all the way to British Columbia. Vanuatu is the only country in the South Pacific with a significant Presbyterian heritage and membership. The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. Pacific were initially referred to as Pacific Team Lotus and their car featured a green stripe with the Lotus logo. Lawrence, and eventually began to explore the Pacific Northwest and the Western Arctic. Hawaii, a state of the United States but located in the central Pacific, incorporates the Union Jack in its state flag. South West Africa and certain South Pacific Islands were administered by League members under C mandates. In the popular conception, such islands are often located in the Pacific, tropical, uninhabited and usually uncharted. Meanwhile, the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington can be considered part of the Northwest or Pacific Northwest. Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which, while not approaching the scale of the Rocky Mountains, are formidable nevertheless. The West has several long rivers that empty into the Pacific Ocean, while the eastern rivers run into the Gulf of Mexico. Annual rainfall is greater in the eastern portions, gradually tapering off until reaching the Pacific Coast where it increases again. In fact, the greatest annual rainfall in the United States falls in the coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific states are the most geologically active areas in the United States. While the Pacific states are the most volcanically active areas, extinct volcanoes and lava flows are found throughout most of the West. Facing both the Pacific Ocean and the Mexican border, the West has been shaped by a variety of ethnic groups. However, in the course of the war in the Pacific the Japanese were not able to launch an actual invasion of the French islands. In 1770, James Cook became the first European to visit the eastern coast of Australia whilst on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific. Show More Sentences Hawaii and the southern tip of Florida are tropical, as are the populated territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific. The Pacific Railway Acts provided the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Initial planning was constrained by the number of available landing craft, most of which were already committed in the Mediterranean and Pacific. The first British hydrogen bombs were tested during Operation Grapple at Malden Island and Christmas Island in the Central Pacific Ocean. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The US invites military forces from the Pacific Rim and beyond to participate. In addition, overwash by tsunamis and tropical storms has corrupted lenses in the Maldives and several Pacific islands. Smaller actions were carried out in the Baltic, the Caucasus, the White Sea and in the North Pacific. He returned to New York, caught the packet Pacific across the Atlantic and arrived in Liverpool at the end of November. It has always had at least one operational steam locomotive, Union Pacific 844, on its roster. Cathay Pacific received immunity from prosecution for reporting the alleged offence. Shell has a strong presence in Singapore, indeed Singapore is the main centre for Shell's petrochemical operations in Asia Pacific region. Maldives, in view of its characteristics, was admitted as a member Pacific POPIN subregional network only in principle. On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific. In 1916, Maugham travelled to the Pacific to research his novel The Moon and Sixpence, based on the life of Paul Gauguin. In 1968, Robert Hughes arranged a number of Stevenson's works for chamber orchestra, which toured the Pacific Northwest that year. Early Golden Age works that focused on racial tolerance included Finian's Rainbow and South Pacific. Connery first met Michael Caine at a party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the two would later become close friends. They convincingly beat Romania and put up a solid first half performance against the Pacific Islanders. The Scots were underdogs against the Pacific Island nation who were full of NRL talent. Show More Sentences Since 1953, the Kuwaiti government has directed investments into Europe, United States and Asia Pacific. Panama also has the Panama Canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, and is a key conduit for international trade. During the rainy season, November through March, storms originate from fronts entering off of the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic life in California thrives, from the state's mountain lakes and streams to the rocky Pacific coastline. The Port of Oakland, fourth largest in the nation, also handles trade entering from the Pacific Rim to the rest of the country. The country was ranked 169th overall and last in the East Asia and Pacific region by the Doing Business 2013 report by the World Bank. Another route proposed is that, either on foot or using primitive boats, they migrated down the Pacific coast to South America. This major geological event separated the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and caused the creation of the Gulf Stream. The California Gold Rush, starting in 1849, brought a large increase in the transportation of people from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On the Pacific side, they boarded Pacific Mail Steamship Company vessels headed for San Francisco. The aim was for the colony to have an overland route that connected the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It also causes volcanism in intraplate regions, such as Europe, Africa and the Pacific sea floor. Such magmas, and those derived from them, build up island arcs such as those in the Pacific Ring of Fire. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Northward up the Pacific side, the four peninsulas are called Shipunsky Point, Kronotsky Point, Kamchatsky Point and Ozernoy Point. Due to its uniquely suitable environment, biologists estimate that a fifth of all Pacific salmon originates in Kamchatka. Further north, walruses and bearded seals can be encountered on the Pacific side, and ribbon seals reproduce on the ice of Karaginsky Bay. The South Equatorial Currents of the Atlantic and Pacific straddle the equator. Antarctic Bottom Water also flows into the Atlantic Ocean basin, where it flows north at a faster rate than in the Pacific. Ermine were also valued by the Tlingit and other indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Show More Sentences They probably diverged in the North Pacific, spreading westwards into Eurasia and eastwards into North America. The Regulus missile program was deactivated with the advent of Polaris in the Pacific. Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor. By 1943, the Allies began to gain the upper hand in the Pacific Campaign's air campaigns. For instance, the population of most Caribbean and several Pacific Islands have been completely wiped out by diseases. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. The Presidio developed into the most important American military installation on the Pacific coast. Historically, trains operated by Southern Pacific Lines ran from San Francisco to Los Angeles, via Palo Alto and San Jose. Thruway service also runs south to San Luis Obispo, California with connection to the Pacific Surfliner. The Florida yew, Mexican yew and Pacific yew are all rare species listed as threatened or endangered. Records in the northeast Pacific are increasing, and breeding has been suspected in British Columbia and Alaska. Molecular clocks have been used to suggest an origin in the Pacific in the Paleocene. Kittiwakes are coastal breeding birds ranging in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. Except in the eastern Pacific, dolphins in warmer, shallower waters tend to be smaller than those in cooler, pelagic waters. It comes from the Pacific hagfish, a jawless fish which is also known as the slime eel. The genus Oncorhynchus contains eight species which occur naturally only in the North Pacific. In all species of Pacific salmon, the mature individuals die within a few days or weeks of spawning, a trait known as semelparity. In the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, salmon are keystone species, supporting wildlife such as birds, bears and otters. When juvenile salmon migrate to the Pacific Ocean, the second host releases a stage infective to salmon. Salmon population levels are of concern in the Atlantic and in some parts of the Pacific. Show More Sentences Canned salmon in the US is usually wild Pacific catch, though some farmed salmon is available in canned form. To the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, salmon is considered a vital part of the diet. The original distribution of the Genus Oncorhynchus covered the Pacific Rim coastline. The Salmon that once dominated the Pacific Ocean are now just a fraction in population and size. The Fraser River salmon population was affected by the 1914 slide caused by the Canadian Pacific Railway at Hells Gate. Char do not die after spawning like Pacific salmon and often spawn several times throughout their lives, typically every second or third year. Subspecific divisions have been suggested for both the Atlantic and Pacific herrings, but their biological basis remains unclear. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard and Development Company. In 1972 Canadian Pacific unit CP Ships were the last transatlantic line to operate from Liverpool. The local radio station Heart Wirral is based in offices at the Pacific Road Arts Centre. The PNTL vessel Pacific Heron is based at the port of Barrow, and is used to transport nuclear material between nearby Sellafield and Japan. Allied submarines in the Pacific War destroyed more Japanese shipping than all other weapons combined. Other predators include tunas, sharks, swordfish, sea turtles, penguins, and at least one species of Pacific salmon. The three major, genetically distinct populations occur in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and western Pacific Oceans. The continental United States offers two major Pacific leatherback feeding areas. Further north, off the Pacific coast of Canada, leatherbacks visit the beaches of British Columbia. A third possible Pacific subpopulation has been proposed, those that nest in Malaysia. Swimming crabs reach their greatest species diversity in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is usually lightly colored, although in the eastern Pacific populations parts of the carapace can be almost black. Other authorities claim that the two populations are phenotypically distinct and treat the East Pacific form as a full species. Show More Sentences The two major subpopulations are the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific subpopulations. In the United States Pacific coast, they have been found from southern California north to the southernmost tip of Alaska. In the Pacific, its range reaches as far north as the southern coast of Alaska and as far south as Chile in the east. Beaches in Southeast Asia, India, islands in the western Pacific, and Central America are where Green sea turtles breed. Pacific green turtles' foraging habitats are poorly understood and mostly unknown. The eastern Pacific, Hawaiian and Southern California subpopulations are designated threatened. In fact, the known association of seabirds with land was instrumental in allowing the Polynesians to locate tiny landmasses in the Pacific. The harbour porpoise species is widespread in cooler coastal waters of the North Atlantic, North Pacific and the Black Sea. Typical interbirth interval ranges from one year for the Black Sea population to three years for eastern Pacific Ocean populations. Minke whales are also occasionally sighted in Pacific waters, in and around the Haro Strait of British Columbia and Washington state. These markings are more prominent on individuals in the North Atlantic than in the North Pacific, where they can appear indistinct. The total historical North Pacific population was estimated at 42,000 to 45,000 before the start of whaling. A 1977 study estimated Pacific Ocean totals of 9,110, based upon catch and CPUE data. All North Atlantic humpbacks sing the same song, while those of the North Pacific sing a different song. The four global populations are North Pacific, Atlantic, Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean populations. Origins of whales occurring at Maldives are not clear either from Arabian or south Pacific populations, and overlaps are possible. Though there are only two recognized living subspecies, there was once a third that was found in the western North Pacific around Japan. The first split in the orca population, between the North Pacific transients and the rest, occurred an estimated 700,000 years ago. Published directories contain identifying photographs and names for hundreds of North Pacific animals. Resident killer whales in the eastern North Pacific have a particularly complex and stable social grouping system. Find more words! 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