The inch is usually the universal unit of measurement in the United States, and is widely used in the United Kingdom, and Canada, despite the introduction of metric to the latter two in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively.
The Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic south of South  America at Cape Horn, and over the North Pole (the ice-cap is only  floating sea-ice). In reality, the Pacific and Atlanâ¦tic Oceans only  exist as separate oceans because we agree to draw an imaginary line  that separates and divides them.
Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east.