Queen of The Pacific - Places

Places

Countries
  • Tahiti: the "Queen of the Pacific" in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and in Francis Allyn Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.
  • Philippines: in Andre de la Varre's 1938 documentary entitled "Manila, Queen of the Pacific".
States
  • California: "the youthful Queen of the Pacific, in her robes of freedom, gorgeously inlaid with gold," in a speech by William H. Seward to the United States Senate in 1850.
Cities
  • Acapulco, Mexico
  • Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Old Panama City: called the Queen of the Pacific before pirate Henry Morgan burned it.
  • San Francisco, California

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