Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 11.

The volcanic island formerly known as Iwojima that was the site of one of the most famous battles of the Pacific ... south of Tokyo is designated as one of 111 active volcanoes in Japan.

“For us Japanese ... the moral was individuals can be killed but the country must be served.” Women on the island have said, “We thought we would be raped if we were captured by American ...

Dmitry Kokh captured polar bears ... to meet polar bears so far to the south. At this time of the year, they should be on the sea ice already, and on Wrangel Island, normally." ...

Data gathered by satellite and acoustic telemetry is beamed to a Brisbane lab, which maps the beasts’ whereabouts ... have inhabited so many South Pacific islands separated by wide expanses ...

German and more vaguely American aspirations in the South Pacific Islands, and finally, by the 1890s, the fear of a southward advance of China and Japan following in the path of their unwelcome ...

Yet the Japanese were ... China and in the Pacific. Techniques had been developed to bring newly captured airfields into use as quickly as possible. In this context the Solomon Islands could be seen ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...

the Pacific Tsunami Warning System said. Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of more than 170 south Pacific islands.