Since miles of coastline is the metric, both oceans should be renamed after South America. The Pacific, having 49,348 miles of South American coast, can be known as the Big South American Ocean ...

The Andes mountain range is the longest mountain range on Earth. It runs along the western coast of South America from the very southern tip to the north coastline, near to the Caribbean.

But all along South America's Pacific coast, shipping is being buffeted by rising sea levels. With the southern hemisphere's approaching winter, when the biggest swells occur, the race is on to ...