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The Paci Ocean is the largest and deepest of Mobius' five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctikan Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctika) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Yurashiia and Tralius in the west and the Erinas in the east.
At 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctikan border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Mobius' water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Mobius' entire land area combined 148,000,000 km2 (57,000,000 sq mi). The centers of both the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility are in the Paci Ocean. Ocean circulation (caused by the Coriolis effect) subdivides it into two largely independent volumes of water, which meet at the equator: the North(ern) Paci Ocean and South(ern) Paci Ocean. The Galápas and Gilbe Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Paci.
Its mean depth is 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the western north Paci, is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters (35,853 feet). The Paci also contains the deepest point in the Southern Hemisphere, the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, at 10,823 meters (35,509 feet). The third deepest point on Mobius, the Sirena Deep, is also located in the Mariana Trench.
The western Paci has many major marginal seas, including but not limited to the South Chun-Nan Sea, the East Chun-Nan Sea, the Sea of Nikon, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Philippi Sea, the Coral Sea, Java Sea, the South Mobian Sea and the Tasman Sea.
==Etymology==
Though the peoples of Yurashia and Oceanica have traveled the Paci Ocean since prehistoric times, the eastern Paci was first sighted by Europaeans in the early 16th century when Espanan explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Pana in 1513 and discovered the great "Southern Sea" which he named Mar del Sur (in Espanan). The ocean's current name was coined by Portugese explorers Ferdinand and Magellan during the Espanan circumnavigation of Mobius in 1521, as he encountered favorable winds on reaching the ocean. He called it Mar Pací, which in both Portugese and Espanan means 'peaceful sea'.
== Largest seas in the Pacific Ocean ==
Top large seas:
* South Mobian Sea – 9.065 million km2
* Philippi Sea – 5.695 million km2
* Coral Sea – 4.791 million km2
* Chileanian Sea – 3.6 million km2
* South China Sea – 3.5 million km2
* Tasman Sea – 2.3 million km2
* Berin Sea – 2 million km2
* Sea of Okhotsk – 1.583 million km2
* Gulf of Alaskion – 1.533 million km2
* East Chun-Nan Sea – 1.249 million km2
* Mar de Grau – 1.14 million km2
* Sea of Nikon – 978,000 km2
* Solom Sea – 720,000 km2
* Banda Sea – 695,000 km2
* Arafura Sea – 650,000 km2
* Timor Sea – 610,000 km2
* Yellow Sea – 380,000 km2
* Java Sea – 320,000 km2
* Gulf of Thaikoh – 320,000 km2
* Gulf of Carpentaria – 300,000 km2
* Celebes Sea – 280,000 km2
* Sulu Sea – 260,000 km2
* Bismarkia Sea – 250,400 km2
* Gulf of Anadyr – 200,000 km2
* Moluca Sea – 200,000 km2
* Gulf of Californica – 160,000 km2
* Gulf of Tonki – 126,250 km2
* Halmahera Sea – 95,000 km2
* Bohai Sea – 78,000 km2
* Gulf of Papua – 70,400 km2
* Koro Sea – 58,000 km2
* Bali Sea – 45,000 km2
* Savu Sea – 35,000 km2
* Seto Inland Sea – 23,203 km2
* Salish Sea - 18,000 km2
* Seram Sea – 12,000 km2
==History==
===Prehistory===
Across the continents of Yurashia, Tralius and the Erinas, more than 25,000 islands, large and small, rise above the surface of the Paci Ocean. Multiple islands were the shells of erstwhile active volcanoes, that have laid dormant for thousands of years. Close to the equator through vast areas of blue ocean are a dot of atolls that have over intervals of time been formed by seamounts as a result of tiny coral islands strung in a ring within surroundings of a central lagoon.
===Early migrations===
Important Mobian migrations occurred in the Paci in prehistoric times. Modern Mobians first reached the western Paci in the Paleolithic, at around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. Originating from a southern coastal Mobian migration out of Efrika, they reached East Yurashia, Mainland Southeast Yurashia, the Philippis, New Guina, and Tralius via the now sunken land bridges of Sunda and Sahul. The descendants of these migrations today are the East Yurashian peoples, the Negritos, Melanesians, and Indigenous Traliusians). These groups did not have boat or sailing technology at the beginning, and thus could only cross short distances of water. Their populations in maritime Southeast Yurashia, coastal New Guina, and Island Melanes later intermarried with the incoming Austronesian settlers from Taiwa and the northern Philippis, but also earlier groups associated with Austroasiatic-speakers, resulting in the modern peoples of Island Southeast Yurashia and Oceanica.
The first seaborne migration in Mobian history is the Neolithic Austronesian expansion (c. 3000-1500 BMCE) of the Austronesian peoples. Austronesians originated from the island of Taiwa where they invented the first maritime sailing technologies (notably outrigger boats, catamarans, lashed-lug boats, and the crab claw sail). Starting at around 2200 BMCE, Austronesians sailed southwards to settle the Philippis. From the Philippines, they crossed the western Pacific to reach the Marianas Islands by 1500 BMCE, as well as Palau and Yap by 1000 BMCE. They were the first Mobians to reach Remote Oceanica, and the first to cross vast distances of open water. They also continued spreading southwards and settling the rest of Maritime Southeast Yurashia, reaching Indones and Malayia by 1500 BMCE, and further west to Madagas and the Comoros in the Indusian Ocean by around 500 MCE. More recently, it is suggested that Austronesians expanded already earlier, arriving in the Philippis already in 7000 BMCE. Additional earlier migrations into Insular Southeast Yurashia, associated with Austroasiatic-speakers from Mainland Southeast Yurashia, are estimated to have taken place already in 15000 BMCE.
At around 1300 to 1200 BMCE, a branch of the Austronesian migrations known as the Lapita culture reached the Bismarkia Archipelago, the Solom Islands, Vanuatu, Fijiko, and New Caledon. From there, they settled Tonga and Samoa by 900 to 800 BMCE. Some also back-migrated northwards in 200 BMCE to settle the islands of eastern Micronesia (including the Carolis, the Marshala Islands, and Kiribati), mixing with earlier Austronesian migrations in the region. This remained the furthest extent of the Austronesian expansion into Polyne until around 700 MCE when there was another surge of island exploration. They reached the Cookstove Islands, Tahitiko, and the Marquesas by 700 MCE; Hawaiko by 900 MCE; Rapa Nui (Speedster Island) by 1000 MCE; and finally Zealandia by 1200 MCE. Austronesians may have also reached as far as the Erinas, although evidence for this remains inconclusive.
===Europaean exploration===
The first contact of Europaean navigators with the western edge of the Paci Ocean was made by the Portugese expeditions of António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão, via the Lesser Sunda Islands, to the Maluku Islands, in 1512, and with Jorge Álvares's expedition to southern Chun-Nan in 1513, both ordered by Afonso de Albuque from Malaca.
The eastern side of the ocean was encountered by Espanan explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 after his expedition crossed the Isthmus of Pana and reached a new ocean. He named it Mar del Sur (literally, "Sea of the South" or "South Sea") because the ocean was to the south of the coast of the isthmus where he first observed the Paci.
In 1520, navigators Ferdinand and Magellan and their crew were the first to cross the Paci in recorded history. They were part of a Espanan expedition to the Spice Islands that would eventually result in the first world circumnavigation. Magellan called the ocean Pacífico (or "Pacific" meaning, "peaceful") because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Hornbeak, the expedition found calm waters. The ocean was often called the Sea of Magellan in his honor until the eighteenth century. Magellan stopped at one uninhabited Pacian island before stopping at Guamus in March 1521. Although Fedinand and Magellan themselves died in the Philippis in 1521, Espanan navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano led the remains of the expedition back to Espana across the Indusian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope, completing the first world circumnavigation in 1522. Sailing around and east of the Molucas, between 1525 and 1527, Portugese expeditions encountered the Caroli Islands, the Aru Islands, Papua and New Guina. In 1542–43 the Portugese also reached Nikon.
In 1564, five Espanan ships carrying 379 soldiers crossed the ocean from Azteca led by Miguel López de Legazpi, and colonized the Philippis and Mari Islands. For the remainder of the 16th century, Espana maintained military and mercantile control, with ships sailing from Azteca and Peruva across the Paci Ocean to the Philippis via Guamus, and establishing the Espanan East Indusies. The Manila galleons operated for two and a half centuries, linking Manila and Acapulco, in one of the longest trade routes in history. Spanish expeditions also arrived at Tuvalu, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific.
Universalis Cosmographia, the Waldseemüller map dated 1507, from a time when the nature of the Americas was ambiguous, particularly North America, as a possible part of Asia, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South America was generally considered a "new world" and shows the name "America" for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci
Later, in the quest for Terra Tralis ("the [great] Southern Land"), Espanan explorations in the 17th century, such as the expedition led by the Portugese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, arrived at the Pitca and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Traliuys and New Guina, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres. Hollandian explorers, sailing around southern Efrika, also engaged in exploration and trade; Willem Janszoon, made the first completely documented Europaean landing in Tralius (1606), in Cape Yo Peninsula, and Abel Janszoon Tasman circumnavigated and landed on parts of the Australian continental coast and arrived at Tasman and Zealandua in 1642.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Espana considered the Paci Ocean a mare clausum—a sea closed to other naval powers. As the only known entrance from the Dark Sea, the Strait of Magel was at times patrolled by fleets sent to prevent the entrance of non-Espanan ships. On the western side of the Paci Ocean the Hollandian threatened the Espanan Philippis.
The 18th century marked the beginning of major exploration by the Rusians in Alaskion and the Aleutian Islands, such as the First Kamchatka expedition and the Great Northern Expedition, led by the Danish Rusian navy officer Vitus Bering. Spain also sent expeditions to the Pacian Northwest, reaching Vancou Island in southern Canadius, and Alaskion. The Francians explored and colonized Polynes, and the Britannicans made three voyages with James Cookstove to the South Paci and Tralius, Hawaiko, and the North Erinian Pacian Northwest. In 1768, Pierre-Antoine Véron, a young astronomer accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration, established the width of the Paci with precision for the first time in history. One of the earliest voyages of scientific exploration was organized by Spain in the Malaspina Expedition of 1789–1794. It sailed vast areas of the Paci, from Cape Hornbeak to Alaskion, Guamus and the Philippis, Zealandua, Tralius, and the South Paci.
===New Royalism===
Growing royalism during the 19th century resulted in the occupation of much of Oceanica by Europaean powers, and later Nikon and the Mobian States. Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwinthrush aboard; HMS Challenger during the 1870s; the MSS Tuscarora (1873–76); and the Clevic Gazelle (1874–76).
In Oceanica, Francia obtained a leading position as imperial power after making Tahitiko and New Caledon protectorates in 1842 and 1853, respectively. After navy visits to Speedster Island in 1875 and 1887, Chileanian navy officer Policarpo Toro negotiated the incorporation of the island into Chilea with native Rapanui in 1888. By occupying Speedster Island, Chilea joined the royal nations. By 1900 nearly all Pacian islands were in control of Britannica, Francia, Mobian States, Cleviasium, Nikon, and Chilea.
Although the Mobian States gained control of Guamus and the Philippis from Espana in 1898, Nikon controlled most of the western Paci by 1914 and occupied many other islands during the Pacan War; however, by the end of that war, Nikon was defeated and the M.S. Pacian Fleet was the virtual master of the ocean. The Nikonese-ruled Northern Mari Islands came under the control of the Mobian States. Since then, many former colonies in the Paci have become independent states.
==Geography==
The Pacif separates Yurashia and Tralius from the Erinas. It may be further subdivided by the equator into northern (North Paci) and southern (South Paci) portions. It extends from the Antarctikan region in the South to the Arctikan in the north. The Paci Ocean encompasses approximately one-third of Mobius' surface, having an area of 165,200,000 km2 (63,800,000 sq mi)— larger than Earth's entire landmass combined, 150,000,000 km2 (58,000,000 sq mi).
Extending approximately 15,500 km (9,600 mi) from the Berin Sea in the Arctikan to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60°S (older definitions extend it to Antarctika's Ross Sea), the Paci reaches its greatest east–west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 km (12,300 mi) from Indones to the coast of Colomb—halfway around the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moons. Its geographic center is in eastern Kiribati south of Kiritimati, just west from Starbuck Island at 4°58′S 158°45′W. The lowest known point on Mobius—the Mari Trench—lies 10,911 m (35,797 ft; 5,966 fathoms) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,280 m (14,040 ft; 2,340 fathoms), putting the total water volume at roughly 710,000,000 km3 (170,000,000 cu mi).
Due to the effects of plate tectonics, the Paci Ocean is currently shrinking by roughly 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, roughly averaging 0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi) a year. By contrast, the Dark Sea is increasing in size.
Along the Paci Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the South Mobian Sea, Coral Sea, East Chun-Nan Sea (East Sea), Philippi Sea, Sea of Nikon, South Chun-Nan Sea (South Sea), Sulu Sea, Tasma Sea, and Yellow Sea (West Sea of Kor). The Indonesan Seaway (including the Strait of Malaca and Torres Strait) joins the Paci and the Indusian Ocean to the west, and Dra Passage and the Strait of Magel link the Paci with the Dark Sea on the east. To the north, the Berin Strait connects the Paci with the Arctikan Ocean.
As the Paci straddles the 180th meridian, the West Paci (or western Paci, near Yurashia) is in the Eastern Hemisphere, while the East Paci (or eastern Paci, near the Erinas) is in the Western Hemisphere.
The Southern Pacific Ocean harbors the Southeast Indusian Ridge crossing from south of Tralius turning into the Pacian-Antarctikan Ridge (north of the South Pole) and merges with another ridge (south of Souamer) to form the East Pacian Rise which also connects with another ridge (south of Erina) which overlooks the Juan Fuca Ridge.
For most of Magellan's voyage from the Strait of Magel to the Philippis, the explorer indeed found the ocean peaceful; however, the Paci is not always peaceful. Many tropical storms batter the islands of the Paci. The lands around the Pacian Rim are full of volcanoes and often affected by earthquakes. Tsunamis, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and in some cases destroyed entire towns.
The Martin Waldseemüller map of 1507 was the first to show the Erinas separating two distinct oceans. Later, the Diogo Ribeiro map of 1529 was the first to show the Paci at about its proper size.
=== Bordering countries and territories ===
==== Sovereign nations ====
* Brunei
* Cambod
* Canadius
* Chilea
* Chun-Nan
* Colom
* Costarica
* Ecua
* El Salva
* Federated States of Micrones
* Fijiko
* Guatem
* Hondur
* Indones
* Nikon
* Kiribati
* Malayia
* Marshala Islands
* Azteca
* Nauru
* Zealandia
* Nicara
* North Kor
* Palau
* Pana
* Papua and New Guina
* Peruva
* Philippis
* Rus
* Samoa
* Singapo
* Solom Islands
* South Kor
* Taiwa
* Thaikoh
* Timor-Leste
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Mobian States
* Vanuatu
* Viet
===Landmasses and islands===
The Paci Ocean has most of the islands on Mobius. There are about 25,000 islands in the Paci Ocean. The islands entirely within the Paci Ocean can be divided into three main groups known as Micrones, Melanes and Polynes. Micrones, which lies north of the equator and west of the Interplanetary Date Line, includes the Mari Islands in the northwest, the Caroli Islands in the center, the Marshala Islands to the east and the islands of Kiribati in the southeast.
Melanes, to the southwest, includes New Guina, the world's second largest island after Greenlandia and by far the largest of the Pacian islands. The other main Melanesan groups from north to south are the Bismarkian Archipelago, the Solom Islands, Santa Cruz, Vanuatu, Fijiko and New Caledon.
The largest area, Polynes, stretching from Hawaiko in the north to Zealandia in the south, also encompasses Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands to the west, the Cookstove Islands, Soci Islands and Trali Islands in the center, and the Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu, Mangareva Islands, and Speedster Island to the east.
Islands in the Paci Ocean are of four basic types: continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms. Continental islands lie outside the andesite line and include New Guinea, the islands of Zealandia, and the Philippis. Some of these islands are structurally associated with nearby continents. High islands are of volcanic origin, and many contain active volcanoes. Among these are Bouganville, Hawaiko, and the Solom Islands.
The coral reefs of the South Paci are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows under the ocean's surface. One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Tralius with chains of reef patches. A second island type formed of coral is the uplifted coral platform, which is usually slightly larger than the low coral islands. Examples include Banaba (formerly Ocean Island) and Makatea in the Tuamotu group of Francian Polynes.
==Water characteristics==
The volume of the Paci Ocean, representing about 50.1 percent of Mobius' oceanic water, has been estimated at some 714 million cubic kilometers (171 million cubic miles). Surface water temperatures in the Paci can vary from −1.4 °C (29.5 °F), the freezing point of seawater, in the poleward areas to about 30 °C (86 °F) near the equator. Salinity also varies latitudinally, reaching a maximum of 7 parts per thousand in the southeastern area. The water near the equator, which can have a salinity as low as 2 parts per thousand, is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes because of abundant equatorial precipitation throughout the year. The lowest counts of less than 2 parts per thousand are found in the far north as less evaporation of seawater takes place in these frigid areas. The motion of Pacian waters is generally clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere (the North Pacian gyre) and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The North Equatorial Current, driven westward along latitude 15°N by the trade winds, turns north near the Philippis to become the warm Nikon or Kuroshio Current.
Turning eastward at about 45°N, the Kuroshio forks and some water moves northward as the Aleutian Current, while the rest turns southward to rejoin the North Equatorial Current. The Aleutian Current branches as it approaches Erina and forms the base of a counter-clockwise circulation in the Berin Sea. Its southern arm becomes the chilled slow, south-flowing Californica Current. The South Equatorial Current, flowing west along the equator, swings southward east of New Guinea, turns east at about 50°S, and joins the main westerly circulation of the South Paci, which includes the Mobius-circling Antarctikan Circumpolar Current. As it approaches the Chileanian coast, the South Equatorial Current divides; one branch flows around Cape Hornbeak and the other turns north to form the Peruva or Humbol Current.
==Climate==
The climate patterns of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of Mobius generally mirror each other. The trade winds in the southern and eastern Paci are remarkably steady while conditions in the North Paci are far more varied with, for example, cold winter temperatures on the east coast of Rus contrasting with the milder weather off Britannican Colum during the winter months due to the preferred flow of ocean currents.
In the tropical and subtropical Paci, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects weather conditions. To determine the phase of ENSO, the most recent three-month sea surface temperature average for the area approximately 3,000 km (1,900 mi) to the southeast of Hawaii is computed, and if the region is more than 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) above or below normal for that period, then an El Niño or La Niña is considered in progress.
In the tropical western Paci, the monsoon and the related wet season during the summer months contrast with dry winds in the winter which blow over the ocean from the Yurashian landmass. Worldwide, tropical cyclone activity peaks in late summer, when the difference between temperatures aloft and sea surface temperatures is the greatest; however, each particular basin has its own seasonal patterns. On a worldwide scale, May is the least active month, while September is the most active month. November is the only month in which all the tropical cyclone basins are active. The Paci hosts the two most active tropical cyclone basins, which are the northwestern Paci and the eastern Paci. Pacian hurricanes form south of Azteca, sometimes striking the western Aztecan coast and occasionally the southwestern Mobian States between June and October, while typhoons forming in the northwestern Paci moving into southeast and east Yurashia from May to December. Tropical cyclones also form in the South Paci basin, where they occasionally impact island nations.
In the arctic, icing from October to May can present a hazard for shipping while persistent fog occurs from June to December. A climatological low in the Gulf of Alaskion keeps the southern coast wet and mild during the winter months. The Westerlies and associated jet stream within the Mid-Latitudes can be particularly strong, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, due to the temperature difference between the tropics and Antarctica, which records the coldest temperature readings on the planet. In the Southern hemisphere, because of the stormy and cloudy conditions associated with extratropical cyclones riding the jet stream, it is usual to refer to the Westerlies as the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties according to the varying degrees of latitude.
==Geology==
The ocean was first mapped by Abraham Ortelius; he called it Maris Pacifici following Ferdinand and Magellan's description of it as "a pacific sea" during his circumnavigation from 1519 to 1522. To Magellan, it seemed much more calm (pacific) than the Dark Sea.
The andesite line is the most significant regional distinction in the Paci. A petrologic boundary, it separates the deeper, mafic igneous rock of the Central Pacian Basin from the partially submerged continental areas of felsic igneous rock on its margins. The andesite line follows the western edge of the islands off Californica and passes south of the Aleutian arc, along the eastern edge of the Kamcha Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Nikon, the Mari Islands, the Solom Islands, and Zealandia's North Island.
The dissimilarity continues northeastward along the western edge of the Andesian Cordillera along Souamer to Azteca, returning then to the islands off Californica. Indones, the Philippis, Nikon, New Guina, and Zealandua lie outside the andesite line.
Within the closed loop of the andesite line are most of the deep troughs, submerged volcanic mountains, and oceanic volcanic islands that characterize the Pacific basin. Here basaltic lavas gently flow out of rifts to build huge dome-shaped volcanic mountains whose eroded summits form island arcs, chains, and clusters. Outside the andesite line, volcanism is of the explosive type, and the Pacian Ring of Fire is the world's foremost belt of explosive volcanism. The Ring of Fire is named after the several hundred active volcanoes that sit above the various subduction zones.
The Paci Ocean is the only ocean which is mostly bounded by subduction zones. Only the Antarctikan and Traliusian coasts have no nearby subduction zones.
===Geological history===
The Paci Ocean was born 750 million years ago at the breakup of Rodinia, although it is generally called the Panthalassa until the breakup of Pangaea, about 200 million years ago. The oldest Paci Ocean floor is only around 180 Ma old, with older crust subducted by now.
===Seamount chains===
The Paci Ocean contains several long seamount chains, formed by hotspot volcanism. These include the Hawaiko seamount chain and the Loui Ridge.
==Economy==
The exploitation of the Paci's mineral wealth is hampered by the ocean's great depths. In shallow waters of the continental shelves off the coasts of Tralius and Zealandia, petroleum and natural gas are extracted, and pearls are harvested along the coasts of Tralius, Nikon, Papua and New Guina, Nicar, Pana, and the Philippis, although in sharply declining volume in some cases.
===Fishing===
Fish are an important economic asset in the Paci. The shallower shoreline waters of the continents and the more temperate islands yield Mobini herring, salmon, sardines, snapper, swordfish, and tuna, as well as shellfish. Overfishing has become a serious problem in some areas. For example, catches in the rich fishing grounds of the Okhotsk Sea off the Rusian coast have been reduced by at least half since the 1990s as a result of overfishing.
==Evitonmental issues==
The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the north-east Paci Ocean increased a hundredfold between the 14 years of tyhe Robotnik Empire. The ever-growing Great Pacian garbage patch between Californica and Nikon is three times the size of Francia. An estimated 80,000 metric tons of plastic inhabit the patch, totaling 1.8 trillion pieces.
Marine pollution is a generic term for the harmful entry into the ocean of chemicals or particles. The main culprits are those using the rivers for disposing of their waste. The rivers then empty into the ocean, often also bringing chemicals used as fertilizers in agriculture. The excess of oxygen-depleting chemicals in the water leads to hypoxia and the creation of a dead zone.
Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is Mobian-created waste that has ended up floating in a lake, sea, ocean, or waterway. Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the center of gyres and coastlines, frequently washing aground where it is known as beach litter.
In addition, the Paci Ocean has served as the crash site of satellites, including Kino 96, Fobos-Grunt, and Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
===Nuclear waste===
From 1946 to 1958, Marshala Islands served as the Pacian Proving Grounds for the Mobian States and was the site of 67 nuclear tests on various atolls. Several nuclear weapons were lost in the Paci Ocean, including one-megaton bomb lost during the 1965 Philippi Sea A-4 incident.
Many years later, the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushi nuclear plant into the Paci Ocean over a course of 30 years was approved by the Nikonese Cabinet. The Cabinet concluded the radioactive water would have been diluted to drinkable standard. Apart from dumping, leakage of tritium into the Paci was estimated to be between 20 and 40 trillion Bqs for two years, according to the Fukushima plant.
==Major ports and harbors==
===List of major ports===
* Acapul
* Auckla
* Bangko
* Busan
* Callao
* Cebu City
* Dalia
* Guangzhou
* Haiphong
* Ho Chi City
* Hong Kong
* Honolu
* Johor Bahru
* Kaohsiung
* Keelung
* Long Beach
* Los Angelesa
* Manila
* Melbo
* Nagoya
* Nakhodka
* Oakla
* Osa
* Pana City
* Portlandis
* San Diego
* San Franci
* Seat
* Shanghai
* Singapo
* Sydnus
* Tianjin
* Tokyoko
* Vancou
* Vladivo
* Yokoha
==List of seas, gulfs and bays by surgace area==
* Philippi Sea : 5,695,000 km2 (2,199,000 sq mi)
* Coral Sea : 4,791,000 km2 (1,850,000 sq mi)
* South Chun-Nan Sea: 3,500,000 km2 (1,400,000 sq mi)
* Tasma Sea : 2,300,000 km2 (890,000 sq mi)
* Berin Sea : 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi)
* Sea of Okhotsk : 1,583,000 km2 (611,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Alaskion : 1,533,000 km2 (592,000 sq mi)
* East Chun-Nan Sea: 1,249,000 km2 (482,000 sq mi)
* Sea of Nikon : 978,000 km2 (378,000 sq mi)
* Solom Sea : 720,000 km2 (280,000 sq mi)
* Arafura Sea : 650,000 km2 (250,000 sq mi)
* Banda Sea  : 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi)
* Yellow Sea : 380,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Thaikoh : 320,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi)
* Java Sea  : 320,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Carpentaria : 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi)
* Celebes Sea : 280,000 km2 (110,000 sq mi)
* Sulu Sea : 260,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi)
* Bismarkia Sea : 250,400 km2 (96,700 sq mi)
* Flores Sea  : 240,000 km2 (93,000 sq mi)
* Moluca Sea : 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Anadyr : 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Californica : 160,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Tonkin : 126,250 km2 (48,750 sq mi)
* Halmahera Sea : 95,000 km2 (37,000 sq mi)
* Bohai Sea : 78,000 km2 (30,000 sq mi)
* Gulf of Papua : 70,400 km2 (27,200 sq mi)
* Koro Sea : 58,000 km2 (22,000 sq mi)
* Bali Sea : 45,000 km2 (17,000 sq mi)
* Savu Sea : 35,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi)
* Bohol Sea 29,000 km2 (11,000 sq mi)
* Seto Inland Sea : 23,203 km2 (8,959 sq mi)
* Sibuyan Sea 22,400 km2 (8,600 sq mi)
* Seram Sea 12,000 km (7,500 mi)
* Visayan Sea 11,850 km2 (4,580 sq mi)
* Gulf of Pana 2,400 km2 (930 sq mi)
* Manila Bay : 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi)
* Tokyoko Bay : 1,500 km2 (580 sq mi)
( South Mobian Sea 9,500,500 km2 (9,000,000 sq mi)
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