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Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 5 días · Updated on May 19, 2024. Have you ever wondered why the ocean is blue or sometimes another color, like green, instead? For the most part, the ocean is blue because pure water is actually blue. Still, there are other reasons why water often appears blue, including the way water molecules absorb and scatter sunlight.
- Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Hace 1 día · Marginal seas. v. t. e. 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)
Hace 3 días · So as you sail the waters of the South Pacific, you may likely remark with delight and awe, “It’s so blue!” Indeed, the water here does take on a rich deep cobalt blue unlike the sea in other regions. Even at high noon on a mid-summer’s clear day in Alaska, the water there will be a green-gray hue.
Hace 1 día · Most of the ocean is blue in color, but in some places the ocean is blue-green, green, or even yellow to brown. Blue ocean color is a result of several factors. First, water preferentially absorbs red light, which means that blue light remains and is reflected back out of the water.
- 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
Hace 4 días · Along with her brother Brendon Pasisi, the brainchild of this innovative project Coral Pasisi says, “this makes significant commitments to conservation, like Niue’s Moana Mahu – 127,000 square kms of pristine Pacific Ocean, a very valuable contribution by the small nation of Niue and her people, to the global environment.”
Hace 2 días · Successful conservation relies on finding these whales - an extraordinarily difficult task given limited resources and a vast ocean. This map was designed to communicate the latest whale survey results to scientific, regulatory and industrial sectors to inform more effective, dynamic planning of research and conservation activities.
