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3 days ago · The South Pacific is home to thousands of low-lying islands dotted across miles of Pacific Ocean. With rising sea levels, it's predicted that many of these islands will simply disappear...
1 day ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the 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)
3 days ago · Southern Ocean, body of salt water covering approximately one-sixteenth of Earth’s total ocean area. The Southern Ocean is made up of the portions of the world ocean south of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans and their tributary seas surrounding Antarctica below 60° S.
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- How deep is the Southern Ocean?The Southern Ocean has an average depth of 10,728 feet (3,270 meters) and a maximum depth of 24,383 feet (7,432 meters) in the South Sandwich Trenc...
- How many square miles does the Southern Ocean cover?The Southern Ocean covers 8,479,000 square miles (21,960,000 square km), which is approximately one-sixteenth of Earth’s total ocean area. It holds...
- What organisms live in the Southern Ocean?The waters of the Southern Ocean favor the growth of diatoms and other single-celled plants. Krill are the most important organism in the higher fo...
5 days ago · Map of the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands are in the South Pacific Ocean, north-east of New Zealand, between American Samoa and French Polynesia. There are 15 major islands spread over 2,200,000 km 2 (850,000 sq mi) of ocean, divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls.
- Unitary constitutional monarchy
3 days ago · Fiji is a country and archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It surrounds the Koro Sea about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, New Zealand. It consists of some 300 islands (about 100 of which are inhabited) and 540 islets.
5 days ago · Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of a chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands located about 500 miles (800 km) west of Fiji and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east of Australia. The islands extend north-south for some 400 miles (650 km) in an irregular Y shape.
1 day ago · The ocean is the body of salt water that covers ~70.8% of the Earth. [8] In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. [9] Distinct names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.
