invasion of Iwo, Iwo, Iwo Jima - a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)

battle of the Philippine Sea, Philippine Sea - a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte

Guadalupe Island - a Mexican island in the Pacific west of Baja California

Aleutian Islands, Aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska

Oceania, Oceanica - a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

Austronesia - islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)

Wake Island, Wake - an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

East India, East Indies, Malay Archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

New Guinea, Papua - a Pacific island north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; governed by Australia and Indonesia

Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

Volcano Islands - a group of Japanese Islands in the northwesternern Pacific Ocean north of the Marianas

New Zealand - North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific

Belau, Palau Islands, Pelew, Palau - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean

Philippine Islands, Philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands

Catalina Island, Santa Catalina - an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California

Antarctic Ocean - the southern waters surrounding Antarctica

Arafura Sea - a part of the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia and south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia

Bering Sea - part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait

Coral Sea - an arm of the South Pacific northeast of Australia

East China Sea - part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia

Gulf of Alaska - a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago

Gulf of Tehuantepec - an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico

North Pacific - that part of the Pacific Ocean north of the equator

ocean - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

Osaka Bay - a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu

Puget Sound - an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State

San Diego Bay - a bay of the Pacific in southern California

San Francisco Bay - a bay of the Pacific in western California

Sea of Japan - an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan

Sea of Okhotsk - an arm of the Pacific east of Asia

South China Sea - a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons

South Pacific - that part of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator

Tasman Sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand

Yellow Sea - part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia