Visiting Antarctica is on almost every photographer’s bucket list. Each year, the “white continent” invites throngs of ...

In the following visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps the names and meanings of ... the island nation’s position in the southern Pacific Ocean. The full name, Kingdom of Tonga, refers to the ...

On the map, the passage’s wild waters appear to be squeezed in the narrow slit created by the tentacle-like arms of Cape Horn and Antarctica that run to touch each other, as per Britannica. This is ...

The 9.0 magnitude quake was so powerful that it shifted the Earth off its axis and triggered a 15-metre tsunami, which swept over Japan’s main island of Honshu, killing more than 18,000 people and ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 11 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of March 28.

An Australian warship on Monday rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who had encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. Aurimas Mockus was taken aboard ...

The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental regulators overstepped their authority by attempting to impose vague limits on how ...

The Australian Navy rescued a Lithuanian rower caught in tropical cyclone Alfred during his solo venture crossing the Pacific Ocean. Aurimas Mockus, a 44-year-old adventurer, was 740km off the ...

Aircraft carriers deployed by the United States and its NATO ally France made port calls in the Western Pacific Ocean this week, visiting South Korea and Singapore, respectively. The United States ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...