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1 day ago · Pacific Ocean. Coordinates: 0°N 160°W. 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.
5 days ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of salt water on the planet. Lying between the continents of the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Antarctica, it covers an area of over 60 million square miles (155 million km 2 ), which accounts for 30.3% of the Earth's total area.
20 hours ago · t. e. New Caledonia ( / ˌkælɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
2 days ago · Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands, along with Melanesia and Micronesia. Subregions ( Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australasia ), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of Oceania. Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the Polynesian Triangle.
4 days ago · Key Takeaways. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean basin, covering more than 30 percent of the Earth’s surface with an average depth of around 4,000 meters, and contains the deepest known point on the planet, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
5 days ago · East China Sea, arm of the Pacific Ocean bordering the East Asian mainland and extending northeastward from the South China Sea, to which it is connected by the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China. The East China Sea and the South China Sea together form the China Sea.
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4 days ago · There are five major oceans on Earth: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern, and the Arctic. The surface area of all of them combined is estimated at 139 million square miles (361 million km 2 ), with the average depth reaching 12,800 feet (3,900 m).
