Pacific Ocean

Acocella, Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Student Edition. Web. 14 Nov. 2015. This literary criticism is about how a man named John Ronald Reuel that many encouraged him to translate the poem Beowulf since the author of this poem is anonymous and unknown. Although he did publish the piece of literature, he did not publish it. Eventually, his son published the piece of literature forty years after the death of his father. Making Beowulf a popular poem at that time. The…

Hawaii On January 19, 1776, Captain James Cook first sighted Oahu aboard the HMS Resolution. This was the first Hawaiian island to be discovered, and it surprised the crew. They did not believe that any islands existed that far north in the Pacific Ocean. Later on, Europeans officially landed on the island on February 28,…

kilometres off the coast of America and covers around 1,045 km² of land. The population in Tahiti is roughly around 178,133. Approximately 2000 years ago the Samoan's discovered Tahiti, and later spread out and discovered Hawaii and Rapa Nui in the Pacific. Although the Samoans discovered Tahiti there has been many theories on whether their ancestors discovered the islands by travelling from the East, or from the West. Most theories suggest that Tahiti was discovered accidentally, but yet they…

I. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 A. The Pacific Ocean 1. Over a period of several thousand years, peoples originally from Asia crossed the water to settle the islands of the East Indies, New Guinea, the Melanesian and Polynesian islands, the Marquesas, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands out to Hawaii. Polynesian use of the sweet potato, domesticated in South America, suggests that they may have reached the Americas. 2. Polynesian migration and establishment of colonies was aided by…

Hawaii and Kahoolawe. Honolulu is located on the southeast coast of the third largest island in Hawaii, Oahu. The city is in the North Pacific Ocean and south…

travelled to Tofino and had the great, good fortune to find myself exploring the Wild Pacific Trail. Over 9 km long, the trail winds along the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. Waves crashing on the rocks below, giant cedars towering overhead, it is unquestionably an authentic west coast experience. Inspired by the breathtaking vista, I stopped for a few minutes to savour the view. As I gazed out across the mighty ocean swell, my eyes came to rest on a single, solitary padlock chained to…

The Cook Islands is a Polynesian country comprising 15 small islands with a total land area of 240 km2 (Table 1), located in the South Pacific Ocean, but its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers an ocean area of 1.8 million km2. The country of the Cook Islands consists of two main groups, one in the north and one in the south. The southern group is nine elevated islands mainly of volcanic origin although some are virtually atolls. The majority of the population lives in the southern group (Fig.…

Before the Battle After the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942, the Japanese still sought to capture portions of the Pacific Ocean and land within those portions, including the Midway Island. The mastermind behind these plans, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, was mainly hoping to secure the Samoa Islands, Fiji and Australia to expand territory, with the capturing of the Midway Island only being a problem due to its proximity to the United States. The plan for the Island contained a ruse that…

that we have today. They had to come all the way across the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish had ships called, Galleons, that sailed back and forth across the ocean, bringing goods from the Orient into Mexico. We think that it was on these Galleons that the robes crossed the ocean to the Americas. Click on the picture, if you’d like to see more of what a Galleon looked like. So, the beautiful robes sailed all the way across the Pacific Ocean in Spanish Galleons and arrived in Mexico. We think that…

The Easter Island or Isla de Pascua covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean 2,300 miles from Chiles west coast. It currently has 887 still existing statues averaging 13 feet tall carved out of tuff which is the light, porous rock formed by consolidated volcanic ash on the island which proved that there was a rich culture among the settlers which first discovered it. These staues were placed on ceremonial stone platforms called ahus however till this day there is no information…