Timeline for Why did the English name of "Pacific Ocean" stick if it has been known by many cultures since ancient times?
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| Dec 27, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | This feels a little incomplete, given the "discovery" tag and that an important colloquialism counts the entire ocean as "South Sea", like here even up to Alaska. Just like American place names, things are mixed up. And then there is this possible tautology: 'in European languages the European naming won out'? | |
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| Dec 27, 2019 at 3:45 | history | answered | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
