cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.^[1]

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the Pacific Ocean

1. An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
   • 2015 May 21, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “How does Santa Barbara match up with other U.S. oil spills?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 April 2016:

     The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.

   • 2018 August 12, David Gutman, Mike Baker, “Sea-Tac officials, airlines to meet Monday to discuss security protocols after turboprop heist”, in The Seattle Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 August 2018:

     In a Saturday news release, NORAD said the fighters were working to redirect the turboprop west, out over the Pacific Ocean, before it crashed on Ketron Island.

• the Pacific

• oceans: Antarctic Ocean~Southern Ocean · Arctic Ocean · Atlantic Ocean · Indian Ocean · Pacific Ocean ^[edit]

• “Pacific Ocean”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Pacific Ocean”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.