The United States shares land borders with Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south), and a territorial water border with Russia in the northwest, and two territorial water borders in the southeast between Florida and Cuba, and Florida and the Bahamas. The contiguous forty-eight states are otherwise bounded by the <answer>Pacific Ocean</answer> on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Alaska borders the <answer>Pacific Ocean</answer> to the south, the Bering Strait to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north, while Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the <answer>Pacific Ocean</answer>.
Which ocean does Alaska border to the south?
Pacific Ocean