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2 giorni fa · Oceans by size # Ocean Location Area (km 2) Volume (km 3) Avg. depth (m) Coastline (km) 1 Pacific Ocean: Between Asia and Australasia and the Americas: 168,723,000 (46.6%) 669,880,000 (50.1%) 3,970: 135,663 (35.9%) 2 Atlantic Ocean: Between the Americas and Europe and Africa: 85,133,000 (23.5%) 310,410,900 (23.3%) 3,646: 111,866 (29. ...
- 3.688 km (2 mi)
- 1,370,000,000 km³ (328,680,479 cu mi) (97.5% of Earth's water)
- 361,000,000 km² (139,382,879 sq mi) (71% of Earth's surface area)
- List of countries by length of coastline
1 giorno fa · Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the 60° S parallel in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east. Its area, excluding adjacent seas, encompasses about 62.5 million square miles.
6 giorni fa · 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 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.
- 4,280 m (14,040 ft)
- 165,250,000 km² (63,800,000 sq mi)
- 10,911 m (35,797 ft)
- 710,000,000 km³ (170,000,000 cu mi)
4 giorni fa · Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of Atlas.’ It is second in size to the Pacific Ocean.
- Covering approximately one-fifth of Earth’s surface, the area of the Atlantic Ocean without its dependent seas is approximately 31,568,000 square m...
- The Atlantic Ocean has an average depth (with its seas) of 11,962 feet (3,646 meters) and a maximum depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) in the Puer...
- The outstanding feature of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an immense median mountain range extending throughout the len...
- The surface waters of the North Atlantic have a higher salinity than those of any other ocean, reaching values exceeding 37 parts per thousand in l...
- The Atlantic Ocean provides millions of tons of fish and other seafood annually for human consumption, including lobster, haddock, cod, mackerel, h...
4 giorni fa · What is the land area of Oceania? How many regions is Oceania divided into? Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 giorni fa · Pacific Ocean. Area (Square Miles): 63,800,000. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean, it covers approximately half of the oceans on Earth. Hence, the ocean is incredibly vast, making up around one-third of the Earth’s surface, including land. Its total area is between 165,700,000 km2 and 165,700,000 km2.
2 giorni fa · The ocean has already lost oxygen throughout its water column. Oxygen minimum zones are increasing in size worldwide.: 471 These changes harm marine ecosystems, and this can lead to biodiversity loss or changes in species distribution. This in turn can affect fishing and coastal tourism.
