Pacific (disambiguation)

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world.

Pacific may also refer to:

Geography

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

Place names

• Pacific, California, community in El Dorado County
• Pacific, Missouri, place in the United States
• Pacific, Washington, city in King County, Washington
• 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

Film

• Pacific 231 (film), an award-winning 1949 French film directed by Jean Mitry
• Pacific Theatres, a movie theater chain in southern California

Music

Record labels

• Pacific Front Recordings
• Pacific Jazz Records
• Pacific Records

Works

• Pacific 231, an orchestral work written by Arthur Honegger in 1923

Television

• Pacific TV, an Indonesian television station
• The Pacific (TV miniseries), an HBO TV miniseries about the US involvement in the Pacific during World War II

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 University, a private college in Oregon
• University of the Pacific (Peru), a private university in that country
• University of the Pacific (United States), a private university in California
• University of the South Pacific, University in the South Pacific, Main Campus in Fiji, and Smaller Campus in Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niu, Solomon Islands, Tonga

Sports

• 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 (now called Fiji Airways), a Fijian airline
• Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong airline
• Jetstar 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
• Union Pacific Railroad a railroad network in the United States

Ships

• MS Pacific, a cruise ship formerly known as the 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 transatlantic sidewheel steamer of the Collins Line that sank off the coast of Wales in 1856
• SS Pacific, an ocean liner that sank off the coast of Washington State in 1875