SEDIS - Thesaurus
West Pacific  | |
|---|---|
| BT | Pacific Ocean |
| .West Pacific | |
| NT | Banda Arc |
| Indonesian Seas | |
| Nauru Basin | |
| Northwest Pacific | |
| Ontong Java Plateau | |
| Resolution Seamount | |
| Southwest Pacific | |
| RT | North Pacific |
| South Pacific | |
| Northeast Pacific | |
| Southeast Pacific | |
| Timor Sea | |
| East Pacific | |
| Equatorial Pacific | |
| Chibaken-Toho-Oki earthquake 1987 | |
| Kuroshio | |
| SN | Before 1978, search Pacific Ocean AND west. Before 1995, this term sometimes applied to the Kermadec and Tonga trench region east of 180#DG meridian; Polynesian Pacific was also sometimes used for that part of the West Pacific east of the Macquarie Ridge- |
| West Pacific Ocean Islands | |
|---|---|
| NT | Auckland Islands |
| Bonin Islands | |
| Iwo-Jima | |
| Kermadec Islands | |
| Lord Howe Island | |
| Loyalty Islands | |
| Macquarie Island | |
| Norfolk Island | |
| Wake | |
| RT | Bismarck Archipelago |
| Bougainville | |
| Campbell Island | |
| Caroline Islands | |
| Fiji | |
| Goto Islands | |
| Hong Kong | |
| Indonesia | |
| Japan | |
| Kiribati | |
| Kuril Islands | |
| Lesser Sunda Islands | |
| Louisiade Archipelago | |
| Malay Archipelago | |
| Mariana Islands | |
| Marshall Islands | |
| Melanesia | |
| Micronesia | |
| New Ca | |
| SN | This term is used for islands and island groups which could not easily be assigned to adjacent land areas or to island groups such as Australasia, Malay Archipelago and Oceania. Before 1985, many of these islands and island groups were also narrower terms |
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