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The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's five oceans (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean). Strategically important access waterways include the La Perouse, Tsugaru, Tsushima, Taiwan, Singapore, and Torres Straits. The decision by the International Hydrographic Organization in the spring of 2000 to delimit a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, removed the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of 60 degrees south.

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The Pacific Ocean; otherwise it wouldn't have been the Pacific Ocean at the time before it was the Pacific Ocean because otherwise it would not be called the Pacific Ocean before it was called the Pacific Ocean.

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But before that and since then, the Pacific Ocean was otherwise known by Pacific Islanders from Rapanui (Easter Island) to A'otearoa (New Zealand) as Moana Nui. Moana Nui was bustling with trade and migration between many of the islands that had been settled perhaps 2000 years ago. in 1400s, China and what is now South America (before NOT having been discovered by Columbus), had established trade.

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Other than considering conventional ethnocentric points of view, which have it that Magellan "discovered" the Pacific Ocean (and named it), this large body of water would most likely have been discovered by an earlier ancestor of our species (homo sapiens) who would have traveled out of Africa, through the Middle East, and into Asia, about 1.2-1.7 million years ago.

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