• the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
• the rare Izu stingray differs from all other Pacific members of its family in having a white fin fold on its tail?
• the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific?
• jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
• the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?

Facts on topics related to Pacific

Pacific Islands

• the predatory land flatworm Platydemus manokwari is a serious threat to rare endemic land snails in the Pacific Islands?
• the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
• the recently defunct Pacific Magazine, a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine?

Archipelago

• East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean?
• Severnaya Zemlya was the last archipelago on Earth to be discovered?
• Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago, features no roads between settlements?
• the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
• the Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico, engages in anting, a behavior in which birds rub ants on their feathers?

Pacific Ocean

• Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?
• Detroit Seamount, an underwater volcano in the North Pacific, is as big as the island of Hawaii?
• Frank Grouard, a famous scout during the Indian Wars, was believed by many to be an American Indian but actually came from the Society Islands in the South Pacific?
• Hurricane Alma (pictured) was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span?
• Hurricane Irene–Olivia (track pictured) was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone that moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin?
• infragravity waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?
• Norman Luxton sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a 100-year old Nootka dugout canoe for five months before being forced to stop from injuries?
• potbelly sculpture is a crude non-Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period?
• Richard Whitaker's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?
• Typhoon Wayne, which roamed the South China Sea and Formosa Strait for over three weeks in 1986, remains the longest lived tropical cyclone on record in the western Pacific Ocean?