This wet air is then carried by trade winds to the normally rainy areas of the western Pacific, near the Equator.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The Pacific Rim, especially areas in China and Japan, they've run out of wood, but we have an abundance of it."

VOA: special.2011.07.22

Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

He said the South would accept nothing less than extending the Missouri compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So are the coastal cities of Santa Monica and Malibu, where people like to ride surfboards on the Pacific Ocean waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

About two years after a solar maximum, the Pacific experiences conditions similar to El Nino the opposite of La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The problem is especially common along the west coast of Africa and in some ports in Asia and the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

The only detail is a small stream of water running through the middle of the square towards the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The representative from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu made an emotional appeal for a treaty with legal force.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

Real La Nina events have been linked with cooler than normal temperatures on the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Jan Hafner is a scientific computer programmer with the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaii.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

The protests were especially bitter on the pacific coast where thousands of Chinese immigrants were settling in California.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

They proposed that the line of the Missouri Compromise be pushed west,all the way to the Pacific Coast.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

They landed in the Pacific Ocean, only six kilometers from the ship that waited to rescue them.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Today,we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that live there.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

They would fly four thousand kilometers to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

The Senate confirmed him in May. Formerly,he was the police chief in Seattle,Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

Therefore,he said, the power that rules the Pacific will be the power that rules the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.22