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The Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean

"Terrified bureaucrats are so easy to manipulate. We could give the Company higher-ups a little kick in the knickers–maybe expand your position to encompass the entire Pacific Ocean."
―Barbara Huntington to Benedict Huntington[src]

The Pacific Ocean, also known as Mare Pacificum or simply the Pacific, was the largest body of water is the world. It totaled at 63.8 million sq. miles of area, 46% of the earth, covering more Earth than all of the world's land. The Pacific Ocean spanned from the the eastern edge of Asia all the way to the western edge of the Americas. It went as far north as Russia and as far south as the tip of South America.

History

"If Jack finds out who you are, he'll throw us both off the ship, and he won't care if we're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when he does it!"
―Jean Magliore to Marcella[src]

By the Age of Piracy, the Brethren Court existed at a time when the waters were untamed, the world a rougher place, and a sailor made his own fate. Around the time of the Fourth Court,[1][2] the Pirate Lord of the Pacific was Mistress Ching,[3][4][5] who had the title at some point prior to the threat of rogue pirates.[6] and in the years following the quest for the Shadow Gold, where she encountered Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl.[7]

With one of the Nine Pieces of Eight, an ancient pair of spectacles dangling from a fishing line and hook, it was a Pacific Rim tradition for two sailors to trade fishing line with each other. With hook and line, a sailor will never go hungry. The Empress, the flagship of Sao Feng, the Pirate Lord of Singapore and the South China Sea, which predominantly plied her trade in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[8]

Prior to the war against piracy led by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, the Pacific Ocean (named "Mare Pacificum") was drawn onto a map of the world created in the EITC headquarters in Port Royal during the search for the Dead Man's Chest,[9][10][11][12] along with a smaller map in the captain's cabin of the Endeavour.[2]

Notable locations

Behind the scenes

The Pacific Ocean was first pictured and identified as "Mare Pacificum" on a map of the world featured in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[9] The map would also be included in the reference books Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide,[10] The Complete Visual Guide,[11] and The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company.[12] It was first identified by name in media relating to the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,[2] most notably the official website.[3] The Pacific Ocean made its first confirmed appearance in the 2008 book Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East.[7]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ The Pirates' Guidelines
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 DisneyPirates.com: MISTRESS CHING-Lord of the Pacific Ocean. A blind lady with hundreds of ships to her armada that rules with terror up and down the coast of China – controls the pirate confederation in China since her husband's death. Profiteer of smuggled trade goods between Japan and China. Her pirates are known to victimize their opponents, with beheadings being the preferred torture.
  4. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, pp. 90-91: "Pirate Lords"
  5. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  6. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Two: Lady Esmeralda
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East
  8. ↑ DisneyPirates.com
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company