Pacific Ocean


The Pacific Ocean is a largest as well as deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from a Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, to Antarctica in the south, & is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

At 165,250,000 square kilometers 63,800,000 square miles in area as defined with a southern Antarctic border, this largest division of the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere are in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean circulation caused by the Coriolis effect subdivides it into two largely self-employed person volumes of water, which meet at the equator: the Northern Pacific Ocean and Southern Pacific Ocean. The Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific.

Its intend depth is 4,000 meters 13,000 feet. Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the western north Pacific, is the deepest unit in the world, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters 35,853 feet. The Pacific also contains the deepest module in the Southern Hemisphere, the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, at 10,823 meters 35,509 feet. The third deepest point on Earth, the Sirena Deep, is also located in the Mariana Trench.

The western Pacific has many major marginal seas, including but non limited to the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Philippine Sea, the Coral Sea, Java Sea and the Tasman Sea.

Largest seas in the Pacific Ocean


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