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Hace 3 días · 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.
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Hace 3 días · The ocean is the body of salt water that covers ~70.8% of the Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. Distinct names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.
- 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
23 de abr. de 2024 · The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main current system in the Atlantic Ocean,: 2238 and it is also part of the global thermohaline circulation, which connects the world's oceans with a single "conveyor belt" of continuous water exchange.
Hace 2 días · The World Factbook. Atlantic Ocean. Page last updated: May 01, 2024. Photos of Atlantic Ocean. view 47 photos. Introduction. Background. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five ocean basins (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean).
Hace 2 días · t. e. 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)
10 de abr. de 2024 · Earth’s surface is dominated by the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans, which together cover some 71 percent of the planet and whose average collective depth is 12,100 feet (3,688 meters).
Hace 2 días · Caribbean Sea, suboceanic basin of the western Atlantic Ocean, lying between latitudes 9 and 22 degrees N and longitudes 89 and 60 degrees W. It is approximately 1,063,000 square miles (2,753,000 square km) in extent. Learn more about the Caribbean Sea in this article.