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Water,Water Everywhere(1) You may know how you got your name.(2)But do you know how some oceans and seas got their names?(3) The Pacific Ocean was named by an explorer from Spain, Ferdinand Magellan.(4)When Magellan sailed on the ocean,it was peaceful.In Spanish,the word for peaceful is“pacifico”——pacific.But that doesn’t mean that the Pacific Ocean is always peaceful.(5)Raging typhoons and tidal waves(6)batter the coastlines of the Pacific many times during the year.(7) Magellan just didn’t see any bad storms(8)there,probably.
Water,Water Everywhere(1) You may know how you got your name.(2)But do you know how some oceans and seas got their names?(3) The Pacific Ocean was named by an explorer from Spain, Ferdinand Magellan.( 4)When Magellan sailed on the ocean,it was peaceful.In Spanish,the word for peaceful is“pacifico”—pacific.But that doesn’t mean that the Pacific Ocean is always peaceful.(5)Raging typhoons and Tidal waves(6)batter the coastlines of the Pacific many times during the year.(7) Magellan just didn’t see any bad storms(8)there,probably.