Indo-Pacific
Hub articles
229 pieces
This Japanese train floats above the rails at 603 km/h
In 2015, in Japan, the magnetic levitation train known as the L0 Series Maglev set a world rail speed record by reaching
This Japanese company survived 1,400 years before closing in 2006
In 578 AD, in Japan, a craftsman who had come from the Korean peninsula founded a company specializing in the construction of
DID YOU KNOW 80-ton statues actually "walked" across Easter Island
On a speck of volcanic land lost in the middle of the Pacific, nearly 900 monumental statues known as moai continue to
Kiribati redrew the international date line to see the sun first
Few people could point to Kiribati on a map, and that is entirely understandable: this island nation in the Pacific is home
Point Nemo Is So Remote the ISS Is Sometimes Its Closest Neighbor
Somewhere in the deep waters of the South Pacific, there exists a spot so isolated that no human being has ever lived
Earth's largest volcano sleeps beneath the Pacific, out of sight
Somewhere at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of kilometers from the nearest inhabited coastline, lies a geological structure so immense
The Mariana Trench Is So Deep the Everest Would Vanish Inside It
Did you know that the deepest known point in the world's oceans lies in the Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific Ocean?
The Chinese submarine missile launch that has the whole Pacific worried
On Monday, at 12:01 p.m. local time, the Chinese navy fired a long-range ballistic missile fitted with a dummy warhead from one
William Lai, the Taiwanese president who refuses to bend to Beijing
On January 1, 2026, Taiwanese president William Lai Ching-te delivered his New Year address just days after China conducted military drills dubbed