• the 1959 Mexico Hurricane is the only known East Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5?
• the Galápagos hotspot, located in the east Pacific Ocean, is responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands?
• the Fire Nation, from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean?
• the Classic Period Mesoamerican archaeological site of Bilbao on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala, features a significant amount of sculpture with ballgame imagery?
• the documentary film Aliens of the Deep by Academy Award winner James Cameron and Steven Quale was made using footage of at least 40 deep sea dives in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
• the Oregon Coast Range was created by a forearc basin along the Pacific Ocean?
• the Polynesian Rat is used to track human migrations across the Pacific Ocean?
• the voyages of the Otter crossing the Pacific Ocean from Australia and becoming the first vessel of the United States to enter a Californian port in 1796 were chronicled by French traveler Pierre François Péron?
• the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
• the presence of the rare bigeye sand tiger in the Pacific Ocean was first suspected based on teeth recovered from the ocean floor?
• the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
• the crustaceans known as giant isopods, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
  
• in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean?
• Hurricane Irene–Olivia (track pictured) was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone that moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin?
• Hurricane Alma (pictured) was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span?
• 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?
• Detroit Seamount, an underwater volcano in the North Pacific, is as big as the island of Hawaii?
• 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?
• Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form within the South Pacific Ocean in June?
• 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?
• 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?
• potbelly sculpture is a crude non-Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period?
• 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?

Facts on topics related to Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

• 1998's Hurricane Karl was one of four simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean at one time, the first such occurrence since 1893?
• 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
• cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II?
• American actress Susan Oliver, after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean?
• Hurricane Alberto of 2000 completed the largest loop ever observed over the Atlantic Ocean?
• Frances has tied Arlene (at eight times) as the most-used name for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean?
• 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the North Atlantic, and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
• Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
• Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
• William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?

Indian Ocean

• Commodore Josias Rowley's campaign to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius in 1810 was the source material for the exploits of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Mauritius Command?
• Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean, Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, have adopted the euro as their national currency?
• East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean?
• Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
• Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam?
• the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?
• the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean?

Arctic Ocean

• in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean?
• the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS?
• the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?

Mediterranean Sea

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• ANTARES, a neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, will find neutrinos from outer space by looking downward, into the Earth?
• Romanus, the second Bishop of Rochester, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea?
• Zakynthos Marine Park in Greece is the first national park established for the protection of sea turtles (Loggerhead Sea Turtle pictured) in the Mediterranean?
• Percnon gibbesi is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean Sea?
• the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?
• the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
• the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea?
• the honeycomb stingray (pictured) has expanded its range into the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal?
• the northern whiting (pictured) has been declared an invasive species in the eastern Mediterranean, having passed through the Suez Canal as part of the Lessepsian migration?

Caribbean Sea

• the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
• the cause of white pox disease (pictured) killing Elkhorn coral tissue in the Caribbean is a common fecal intestinal bacterium found in humans and other animals?

North Sea

• North Sea ferry TS Leda (pictured) was rebuilt as a cruise liner, then became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for Mafiosi, and ultimately was the scene of a Greenpeace demonstration?
• World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?
• Turner Contemporary, a visual arts venue in Margate, has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea?
• Xanten Cathedral (interior pictured), declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea?
• the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945?
• the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
• the Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea?
• the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea?

Bering Sea

• although Atka mackerel are most common to the Bering Sea, they have been reported as far south as Redondo Beach, California?

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?

Pacific

• 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?
• jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
• the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific?
• the rare Izu stingray differs from all other Pacific members of its family in having a white fin fold on its tail?
• 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?