South Pacific

South Pacific is the name for a geographical region of the world. It includes regions of the Pacific Ocean which lie south of the Equator: Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and parts of Oceania.

South Pacific Media

• Fijian double canoe, model, Otago Museum, 2016-01-29.jpg

  Model of a Fijian drua, an example of an Austronesian vessel with a double-canoe (catamaran) hull and a crab claw sail

• Waldseemuller map 2.jpg

  Universalis Cosmographia, also known as the Waldseemüller map, dated 1507, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South America was generally considered the New World and shows the name "America" for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci

• Trieste (23 Jan 1960).jpeg

  The bathyscaphe Trieste before her record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 23 January 1960

• TahitiDupetitThouars.jpg

  Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars taking over Tahiti on 9 September 1842

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  Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station. Tops of thunderclouds are also visible.

• The three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands: Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia

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  An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) map of the Pacific

• Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati