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Pacific Ocean
Largest ocean, seen from the Americas by Balboa in 1513 and named by Magellan in 1520.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q98
Sources
Book
The First Voyage around the World, 1519–1522: An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Book
The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492–1616
Appears in
15 items
Apollo 11
1 item
Splashdown
24 Jul 1969, 16:50:35
Apollo 13
2 items
PC+2 burn
15 Apr 1970, 02:40:39
Splashdown
17 Apr 1970, 18:07:41
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
3 items
An ocean without a warning
26 Dec 2004, 00:58:53
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's first bulletin
26 Dec 2004, 01:14
The third bulletin: the wave in the Pacific
27 Dec 2004, 15:35
The Age of Discovery
4 items
Balboa sights the Pacific
25 Sep 1513 O.S.
Through the strait into the Pacific
28 Nov 1520 O.S.
Landfall at Guam after 98 days on the Pacific
6 Mar 1521 O.S.
Urdaneta finds the way back across the Pacific
8 Oct 1565 O.S.
The History of Earth
1 item
The Isthmus of Panama closes
c. 2.8 Ma
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
3 items
“Great joy in camp”: the ocean in view
7 Nov 1805
The salt works at Seaside
28 Dec 1805
Sacagawea insists on seeing the whale
6 Jan 1806
The Space Shuttle
1 item
Entry interface
1 Feb 2003, 13:44:09