The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Settling the islands of the Pacific Ocean was one of the greatest maritime adventures in human history. Some 3,400 years ...

S cientists aboard a National Geographic research vessel have uncovered the world’s largest known coral in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive specimen of Pavona clavus. Found near the Three ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

Oceania is mostly surrounded by ocean. The Indian Ocean is to the south and the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean are to the west. The Tropic of Capricorn passes through the middle ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean in the world ... This film is relevant for teaching Geography within the National Curriculum in England and Northern Ireland at KS1, 1st Level in Scotland ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Barack Obama slipped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean wearing only fins, trunks, a mask, and a snorkel.