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The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth, covering an area of 165,250,000 square kilometers and containing the deepest known point, Challenger Deep. It extends from the Arctic Ocean to the Southern Ocean and is bordered by Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The ocean is divided into various regions, including the North and South Pacific, and contains many significant marginal seas.

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Pacific Ocean - Wikipedia

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth, covering an area of 165,250,000 square kilometers and containing the deepest known point, Challenger Deep. It extends from the Arctic Ocean to the Southern Ocean and is bordered by Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The ocean is divided into various regions, including the North and South Pacific, and contains many significant marginal seas.

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Pacific Ocean

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Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Pacific


Northwest, North Pacific (disambiguation), South Pacific
(disambiguation), and Pacific (disambiguation).

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's


five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean
in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on
the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is
bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the
west and the Americas in the east.

Pacific Ocean

Coordinates 0°N 160°W

Surface area 165,250,000 km2


(63,800,000 sq mi)

Average depth 4,280 m (14,040 ft)

Max. depth 10,911 m (35,797 ft)

Water volume 710,000,000 km3


(170,000,000 cu mi)

Islands Pacific Islands

Settlements List

At 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square


miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic
border), the largest division of the World Ocean and the
hydrosphere covers about 46% of Earth's water surface
and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger
than its entire land area (148,000,000 km2
(57,000,000 sq mi)).[1] The centers of both the water
hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as
the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, are in the Pacific
Ocean. Ocean circulation (caused by the Coriolis
effect) subdivides it[2] into two largely independent
volumes of water that meet at the equator, the North
Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (or more
loosely the South Seas). The Pacific Ocean can also be
informally divided by the International Date Line into the
East Pacific and the West Pacific, which allows it to be
further divided into four quadrants, namely the
Northeast Pacific off the coasts of North America, the
Southeast Pacific off South America, the Northwest
Pacific off Far Eastern/Pacific Asia, and the Southwest
Pacific around Oceania.

The Pacific Ocean's mean depth is 4,000 meters


(13,000 feet).[3] The Challenger Deep in the Mariana
Trench, located in the northwestern Pacific, is the
deepest known point in the world, reaching a depth of
10,928 meters (35,853 feet).[4] The Pacific also
contains the deepest point in the Southern Hemisphere,
the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, at 10,823 meters
(35,509 feet).[5] 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 the Philippine Sea, South China Sea, East
China Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea,
Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of California, Mar de Grau, Tasman
Sea, and the Coral Sea.

Etymology

Seas in the Pacific Ocean

History

Geography

Water characteristics

Climate

Geology

Economy

Environment

Major ports and harbors

List of seas, gulfs and bays by


surface area

List of islands in the Pacific

Theories of natural delimitation


between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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