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Pacific Heights (film)
Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological thriller directed by John Schlesinger, starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton as a tenant who torments a San Francisco couple.
Pacific Highway (Australia)
The Pacific Highway is a 960-kilometer road along the New South Wales coast, running from North Sydney to the Queensland border and linking Sydney with Brisbane.
Pacific hurricane
Pacific hurricane: a tropical cyclone in the eastern or central North Pacific reaching 74 mph winds; season May 15 to November 30, averaging 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes, 4 major hurricanes, boosted by El Niño.
Pacific International Lines
Pacific International Lines (PIL) is a Singapore container shipping line founded in 1967, among the top 12 carriers worldwide and the largest in Southeast Asia.
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander denotes people of Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian origin; in the US it is the census category Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (689,966 alone in 2020, 0.2% of the population), split from the Asian category before 2000 and centered in Hawaii, California, and increasingly the mainland.
Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), founded as the South Pacific Forum in Wellington, 5-7 August 1971, renamed 2000: the Pacific's main regional organization of 18 members including Australia and New Zealand, based in Suva, guided by the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent and consensus decision-making.
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency enforcement operations
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency enforcement operations coordinate satellite tracking, aerial patrols, and patrol boats among 17 Pacific members to police illegal fishing across about 27.5 million square kilometers.
Pacific literature in English
Pacific literature in English is poetry, fiction, drama, and essays written in English by Pacific Islands writers, emerging as a regional movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory is a NOAA oceanographic research laboratory in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1973, known for DART tsunami buoys and research on ocean acidification and climate.
Pacific Meridional Mode
The Pacific Meridional Mode is a leading ocean-atmosphere pattern in the northeastern subtropical Pacific, identified in 2004, whose warm anomalies extend from Baja California toward the equator.
Pacific Missile Range Facility
Pacific Missile Range Facility (Barking Sands, Kauai): US Navy's world's largest instrumented multi-domain test range; 1,100 sq nm undersea range, Aegis/THAAD missile defense testing, ~900 personnel, NASA KPGO partnership.
Pacific National Exhibition
Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), founded 1910 in Vancouver, is a City-owned non-profit running the 15-day summer PNE Fair, Playland amusement park, and year-round events on a 114-acre Hastings Park site, drawing over 2.5 million visitors annually.
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest, sometimes called Pacific NW, is a region of northwestern North America generally defined as Washington, Oregon, and the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub
The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub (PNWH2) was a federally selected clean hydrogen hub spanning Washington, Oregon, and Montana, with up to $1 billion in funding that the Department of Energy canceled in October 2025.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory in Richland, Washington, operated by Battelle, which took over the Hanford Laboratories in 1965.
Pacific Northwest oyster industry
Pacific Northwest oyster industry: Pacific, Kumamoto, and Olympia oyster aquaculture in Puget Sound, Willapa Bay, and coastal British Columbia; Washington leads U.S. farmed bivalve production, shaped by hatcheries, ocean acidification, and tribal treaty rights.
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNW), USDA Forest Service research unit founded 1925, headquartered in Portland, Oregon; first director Thornton T. Munger; 11 labs, 12 experimental forests; slated for closure in 2026 reorganization.
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), run by the University of Washington, monitors earthquakes and volcanoes across Washington and Oregon and feeds the USGS ShakeAlert early warning system.
Pacific Northwest tree octopus
Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis), a fictitious arboreal cephalopod invented in 1998 by satirist Lyle Zapato on zapatopi.net; a documented Internet hoax preserved by the Library of Congress and widely used in media-literacy education.
Pacific Northwest windstorm
A Pacific Northwest windstorm is a strong midlatitude cyclone that hits Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia with damaging winds, most often between November and February.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean, Earth's largest ocean, lies between the Americas and Asia-Australia, divided into North and South Pacific by convention. Key facts: Bering Strait is its only Arctic gateway (~1 Sv flow, rising since 1990), and IHO limits place its southern boundary at 60°S.
Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was the region where the United States and its allies fought Japan from 1941 to 1945, beginning at Pearl Harbor.
Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, directed by Harold Prince, about Commodore Perry's 1853 opening of Japan, told from a Japanese viewpoint with Kabuki elements.
Pacific oyster
Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas, formerly Crassostrea gigas), Japanese or Miyagi oyster: cupped oyster native to northwest Pacific Asia, the world's most cultivated oyster, introduced to 66 countries; protandrous hermaphrodite releasing up to 200 million eggs; genus name change from Crassostrea remains contested.
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades is a wealthy coastal Los Angeles neighborhood founded in 1922 by Methodists, home to the Getty Villa, largely destroyed by the January 2025 Palisades Fire.
Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate is the largest oceanic tectonic plate on Earth, underlying most of the Pacific Ocean. Its subduction zones produce most of the world's largest earthquakes.
Pacific Private Credit
Pacific Private Credit is a series of private credit funds managed by Pacific Private Fund Advisors of Newport Beach, California, raising about $896 million from 2019 to 2023.
Pacific Private Equity
Pacific Private Equity is a series of private equity funds managed by Pacific Private Fund Advisors, a Newport Beach, California adviser controlled by Pacific Life.
Pacific Racing Team
Pacific Racing Team (パシフィックレーシングチーム), Nagoya-based Japanese SUPER GT GT300 team founded 2009, car #9, known for anime and VTuber tie-up liveries; won its first GT300 race at Suzuka in 2026 with a BMW M4 GT3 EVO. Distinct from the British Pacific Racing F1 team.
Pacific razor clam
Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula), a fast-burrowing surf-zone bivalve from Alaska to California; supports major recreational and commercial fisheries in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, often closed by domoic acid and saxitoxin biotoxin events.