1827: Pacific Ocean in German Dec 16, 2019

Although the Germans did eventually have Pacific colonies, because they arrived there so much later than the Spanish, they had several different names for the Pacific Ocean. The earliest name in the early 16th century was a calque of the Spanish "Mar Pacifico" resulting in "das friedliche Meer" (The Peaceful Sea). Later on, in the 19th century, the name was changed to "das Stilles Meer" based off the Latin "Mare Pacificum", again, a calque, but with the meaning of "Silent Sea" . Only later in the 19th century did the name even contain the word 'Ozean' (ocean), and later still the name "die Pazifischer Ozean" become adopted, based off of the English name. "Stiller Ozean" is also still sometimes used as well.

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