Typhoon Ma-on
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The name Ma-on was used for two typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
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- 2004's Typhoon Ma-on (T0422, 26W, Rolly) - Typhoon Ma-on is notable for becoming a Super Typhoon and making landfall on the Izu Peninsula, Honshū, Japan, causing 6 deaths.
- 2011's Typhoon Ma-onTyphoon Ma-on (2011)Typhoon Ma-on was a powerful typhoon that affected southern Japan. It was the sixth named storm and second typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season....
(T1106, 08W, Ineng) - struck JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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