Western Pacific

Western Pacific may refer to:

  • Western Pacific Railroad (1903–1983)
  • Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870)
  • Western Pacific Airlines (1994-1998)
  • Western Pacific Ocean

Western Pacific may also refer to:

  • British Western Pacific Territories
  • Naval Forces Western Pacific
  • Western Pacific basin


Famous quotes containing the words western and/or pacific:

    “For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
    —Jacques Attali (b. 1943)

    “The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
    Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)