Pacific Ocean - A brief overview

Pacific Ocean - A brief overview

Pacific Ocean is the largest and the deepest ocean in the world.

The Pacific Ocean has an approximate area of 165 million square kilometers (64 million square miles).

The Pacific ocean makes up about 45-46% of the total ocean water area on Earth.

Average depth - 4,280 meters (14,040 ft)

The deepest oceanic trench in the world, the Mariana trench is located in the Pacific Ocean. 

The Mariana trench has a max depth of about 11,920 meters at Challenger Deep.

The Challenger Deep is thus the deepest known point on Earth.

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer named the ocean "Pacific" because of the ocean's relatively calm waters at the time.

The Pacific ocean is shrinking by about an inch every year due to the movement of tectonic plates.

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