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Arctic Circle

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Antarctic Circle

Gulf of

Alaska

Gulf of

Mexico

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Hudson

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Pacific Basin
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Isla San Ambrosio
(to Chile)
Isla San Félix
(to Chile)
Sala y Gomez
(to Chile)
Tahiti
Easter Island
(to Chile)
Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
Galapagos Islands
(to Ecuador)
Marquesas
Islands
Islas Juan Fernández
(to Chile)
Îles Gambier
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Limit of winter pack^ ice
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Pitcairn Islands

(to UK)

Peter I Island

(to Norway)

Palmyra

Atoll (to US)

Clipperton Island

(to France)

Hawaiian Islands

(to US)

French

Polynesia

(to France)

NORTH

AMERICA

SOUTH

AMERICA

Pacific giant kelp can grow up to 18 inches (45 cm)

a day, and may eventually reach up to 200 ft (60 m),

or 34 times the height of the average man.

The Pacific Equatorial

Counter Current flows

eastward toward South

America, carrying up

to 40 million tons

(tonnes) of warm water

with it every second.

Vancouver

San Francisco

Panama City

Callao

Valparaiso

Anchorage

Long Beach

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