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unusual facts about South Pacific Ocean



1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti

The committee recommended that the transit be observed from three points: the North Cape at the Arctic tip of Norway, Fort Churchill at Hudson Bay Canada and a suitable island in the South Pacific.

Charles Henry of Nassau-Siegen

Probably to escape his creditors, he joined the 1766 expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville to explore the South Pacific Ocean.

Dora Creek

The merged flows of Dora Creek together with Lake Macquarie reaches the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean at Swansea.

Parribacus antarcticus

antarcticus is distributed along the western coast the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to northern Brazil, along the southern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, and in Hawaii and Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean.

Tuross River

The river flows generally north, east and northeast, joined by fourteen tributaries including the Back and Wadbilliga rivers, before spilling into Tuross Lake and reaching its mouth at the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean at Tuross Heads.


see also

Bounty Island

Bounty Islands, a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New Zealand.

C. dentata

Christella dentata, a small fern species found in Australia and on islands in the south Pacific Ocean

Fuqing-class replenishment ship

The Fuqing-class were the 1st generation of replenishment ships built by the PLA Navy for support of Yuanwang tracking of ICBM missile tests in the South Pacific Ocean.

Savage Island

Niue, (formerly "Savage Island") an island in the south Pacific Ocean