Pacific (disambiguation)
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world.
Pacific may also refer to:
Places
Related to the Pacific Ocean
- Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Antarctic tectonic plates
- Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Farallon tectonic plates
- Pacific-Kula Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Kula tectonic plates
- Pacific Rim, political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean as well as the various island nations within the region
Places
- Pacific, California, community in El Dorado County
- Pacific, Missouri, place in the United States
- Pacific, Washington, city in King County, Washington
- Pacific, Wisconsin
- Pacific County, Washington
- Pacific Highway (disambiguation), any one of several highways around the world
- Pacific Time Zone
Military history
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater(aka Pacific Theater of Operations), the term used in the United States for all military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it during World War II
- Pacific Ocean Areas (command), the major Allied military command in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II
- Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, one of four major theaters of the Pacific War, between 1941 and 1945
- Pacific War, the part of World War II — and preceding conflicts — that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, from 1937 to 1945
- War of the Pacific, fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru, from 1879 to 1884
Art, entertainment, and media
- Pacific Theatres, a movie theater chain in southern California
- Pacific TV, an Indonesian television station
- The Pacific (miniseries), an HBO TV miniseries about the US involvement in the Pacific during World War II
- Pacific Jazz Records, a Los Angeles-based record company and label
- Pacific (1978 album), an album by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita
- Pacific (NEWS album), a 2007 album by NEWS
- "Pacific" also known as "Pacific State" a 1989 single by 808 State
- Pacific (book), a non-fiction book by Simon Winchester
- Pacific, a painting by Alex Colville
Companies
- A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company), a former American and Canadian supermarket chain
- COSCO Pacific, a Chinese port operator
- Georgia-Pacific, an American pulp and paper company
- Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, a Hong Kong shipping company
- Pacific Investment Management, an investment company
- Pacific Trucks, a Canadian heavy truck maker
Schools
- Pacific High School (disambiguation), the name of several American high schools
- Pacific University, a private college in Oregon
- Universidad del Pacífico (disambiguation), usually translated as "University of the Pacific", any of a number of distinct Latin American universities
- University of the Pacific (United States), a private university in California
- University of the South Pacific
Sports
- Pacific FC, a Canadian soccer team
- Pacific F.C. (Mexico), a former Mexican football team
- Pacific Grand Prix, former Formula 1 race in Japan
- Pacific Racing, an extinct Formula 1 team
- Pacific Tigers, the intercollegiate sports program of the University of the Pacific in California
Transportation
Airlines
- Air Pacific (airline)(now called Fiji Airways), a Fijian airline
- Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong airline
- Pacific Airlines, an airline based in Vietnam
- Pacific Air Lines, a defunct airline
Railroads and trains
- Pacific, a name often given to steam locomotives of the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement
- Southern Pacific Railroad, a former Class 1 railroad network in the United States
- Union Pacific Railroad, a railroad network in the United States
- Canadian Pacific Railway, a former railroad network in Canada
Ships
- MS Pacific, a cruise ship formerly called MS Pacific Princess
- Pacific-class patrol boat, a class of 22 patrol boats built by Australia and donated to twelve South Pacific countries
- SS Pacific (1849), a Collins Line transatlantic sidewheel steamship that sank off the coast of Wales in 1856
- SS Pacific (1850), an ocean liner that sank off the coast of Washington State in 1875
- SS Pacific (1914), later renamed Hewitt, a cargo steamship that went missing off the United States Atlantic coast in 1921
People
- Saint Pacific(Pacificus of San Severino), Roman catholic saint (1653 – 1721)
See also
Search for "pacific" on Wikipedia.