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PRINCIPAL 



New York to Hamburg, 3,395 mi. 

 New York to Gibraltar, 3,204 mi. 

 New York to Liverpool, 3,079 mi. 

 New York to Southampton, 3,080 mi. 

 New York to Panama, 1,920 mi. 

 Cape Town to Plymouth, 5,948 mi. 

 San Francisco to Honolulu, 2,089 mi. 

 Honolulu to Manila, 4,645 mi. 

 Honolulu to Yokohama, 3,445 mi. 

 Honolulu to Auckland, 3,850 mi. 

 Vancouver to Yokohama, 4,230 mi. 

 San Francisco to Yokohama, 4,791 mi. 



ROUTES BY SEA 



(HI) Vancouver to Honolulu, 2,410 mi. 



(n) Yokohama to San Francisco, 4,536 mi. 



(o) Para to Lisbon, 3,248 mi. 



(p) Aden to Melbourne, 6,310 mi. 



(r) Mauritius to Colombo, 2.090 mi. 



(s) Panama to Auckland, 4,180 mi. 



(t) Honolulu to Panama, 4,723 mi. 



(M) Panama to Valparaiso, 2,712 mi. 



(v) Los Angeles to Panama, 2,870 mi. 



(w) Boston to Colon, 2,092 mi. 



(a?) Liverpool to Para, 4.010 mi. 



(y) Apia to Panama, 5,739 mi. 



Gulf Stream 

 Indian Ocean 

 Japan Current 



Labrador Current 

 Pacific Ocean 

 Sargasso Sea 



OCEANIA, o she an' i a, a name used by 

 geographers to designate that portion of the 

 globe which includes most of the islands of the 

 South Pacific Ocean. Authorities differ some- 

 what as to -the exact limits of the groups, but 

 according to a method of classification adopted 

 by many geographers Oceania is made up of 

 four divisions. These are Australasia, includ- 

 ing Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, with 

 adjacent islands; Melanesia, including the Bis- 

 marck, Solomon and several other archipela- 

 goes east of Australia; Micronesia, a group ly- 

 ing chiefly north of the equator between the 

 Philippines (on the west) and the 180th merid- 

 ian; and Polynesia, a large group lying east of 

 the 180th meridian. (The exact location of 

 these divisions is shown on the accompanying 

 map. Note also names of islands and other 

 information.) The most important islands are 

 described in these volumes under their respec- 

 tive titles, and are listed at the end of the 

 article ISLAND. 



OCEANOGRAPHY, oshanog'rafi, that de- 

 partment of geography which embraces a study 

 of the oceans. It deals with tides and currents, 



composition, color and density of sea water, 

 marine life, distribution and depth of ocean 

 waters, effect on climate and kindred topics. 

 The term has been in use a much shorter pe- 

 riod than the general term geography, chiefly 

 because man's knowledge of the great water 

 areas of the earth was comparatively limited 

 until the latter part of the nineteenth century. 

 See list of related topics at the end of the 

 article OCEAN. 



OCELOT, o'selot, a medium-sized animal of 

 the cat family, known as the leopard cat of 



THE OCELOT 



One of the handsomest members of the cat 

 family. 



America. It is one of the most beautiful of the 

 four-footed animals, and ranges from Southern 

 Texas into South America. The ocelot lives 



