Barely-explored, PNG is set in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia and north of Australia.
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The balloon's red and white wreckage was found in the Pacific Ocean south of the capital, Lima, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
Melor is expected to weaken to a tropical storm before moving back out over the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido, where it will become an extra-tropical system over open water later on Thursday.
We believe that all small states of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific can now make some concrete provision against natural disaster to which global warming may sadly make them even more vulnerable.
He has already helped to track down a more recent, smaller impact (a mere 2.15m years ago, and involving an object somewhere between one and four kilometres across) to another part of the Pacific ocean, south-west of Chile.
From a life-poor patch of ocean in the South Pacific to a life-rich lake in the East African Rift System, clear waters can be found in all different corners of the world.
Tracking south, the blustery sandstone cliffs and grinding Pacific Ocean could not be more spectacular: keep an eye out for passing dolphins, whales and rubber-clad surfers.
The region can be visualized as a rootlike labyrinth of narrow inlets, estuaries, and bays reaching south to the state capital, Olympia, 200 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean.
By the end of March 2008 thirty-five micro-projects led by youth for youth in the Caribbean, Pacific and AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea) regions had been implemented.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
At the University of the South Pacific, professor of environmental studies Kanyad Keshani Koshi says living standards are already low, and if the ocean turns against Fijians, they will only worsen.
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