These are some of the most common geographic ... a flat map from Washington D.C. to Shanghai, China, the most direct route appears to be due west over the United States and the Pacific Ocean.

Explorer in Residence Enric Sala and the National Geographic Pristine Seas team launched The Global Expedition, a five-year ocean venture exploring the remote tropical Pacific. The mission aims to ...

Sarah Ann Island, a speck of land in the Pacific Ocean claimed ... Within weeks the National Geographic Society announced that Sandy Island would be stricken from all of its maps, and other ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic ... voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map, the first that ...

Photograph by Manu San Félix, National Geographic Pristine Seas The Solomon Islands sit in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as Coral Triangle for its astounding diversity of coral. Many of the ...