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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the 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.

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Average depth
4,280 m (14,040 ft)
Islands
Pacific Islands
Max. depth
10,911 m (35,797 ft)
Settlements
List
Surface area
165,250,000 km2 (63,800,000 sq mi)
Water volume
c. 710,000,000 km3 (170,000,000 cu mi)

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Pacific Ocean

Nodes397
Edges396
Triples193
Avg. degree2
Density0.005038
Components1

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Pacific Ocean

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related to Water characteristics · 30
Pacific Ocean → Aleutian Current, As, Bering Sea, California Current, Cape Horn, Chilean, Earth-circling Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Humboldt Current, Its, Japan, Kuroshio, Kuroshio Current, New Guinea, North America, North Equatorial Current, North Pacific, Northern Hemisphere, Pacific, Peru, Philippines
related to Geography · 27
Pacific Ocean → Americas, Antarctic, Antarctica's Ross Sea, Arctic, Asia, Australia, Bering Sea, Colombia, Earth, Earth's, Extending, Indonesia, It, Its, Kiribati, Kiritimati, Mariana Trench, Moon, North Pacific, Pacific
related to European exploration · 25
Pacific Ocean → Abreu, Afonso, Albuquerque, António, Balboa, China, European, Francisco Serrão, He, Isthmus, Jorge, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malacca, Maluku Islands, Mar, Pacific, Panama, Portuguese, Sea, South
related to Landmasses and islands · 21
Pacific Ocean → Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Islands, Fiji, Greenland, International Date Line, Kiribati, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Melanesian, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Pacific, Polynesia, Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, The, The Pacific Ocean, There
related to history · 14
Pacific Ocean → Across, Americas, Asia, Australia, Close, Fire, Ma, Multiple, Pangea, Panthalassa, Ring, Rodinia, The, The Pacific Ocean
related to External links · 13
Pacific Ocean → Collection Viewable, Currents, EPIC Pacific Ocean Data, In-situ Ocean Data Viewer, Near-realtime Pacific Ocean Surface, Niño, Ocean Surface Current Analyses, OSCAR, PMEL Argo, Realtime, Realtime Pacific Ocean, Realtime Pacific Ocean El, TAO El Niño
related to Nuclear waste · 13
Pacific Ocean → Apart, Bqs, From, Fukushima, In, Japanese Cabinet, Marshall Islands, Pacific, Pacific Proving Grounds, Philippine Sea A-4, Several, The Cabinet, United States
related to Deep sea mining · 10
Pacific Ocean → An, Clarion Clipperton, Deep-sea, Hawaii, In, It, Mexico, Preventing, Sediment, The
see also · 10
Pacific Ocean → Americas, Asia-Pacific Economic CooperationList, Earth, Pacific, Pacific OceanList, Pacific OceanPacific AlliancePacific, PacificShackleton, Scotia Arc, South Atlantic, Time ZoneSeven SeasTrans-Pacific PartnershipWar
related to Environment · 9
Pacific Ocean → An, California, China, France, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Japan, Marine, The, The Northwestern Pacific Ocean

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pacific ocean islands south also north southern philippines new east sea states australia japan asia water island 000 spanish first

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Pacific OceanAverage depth4,280 m (14,040 ft)1.00infobox
Pacific OceanCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Pacific OceanIslandsPacific Islands1.00infobox
Pacific OceanMax. depth10,911 m (35,797 ft)1.00infobox
Pacific OceanSettlementsList1.00infobox
Pacific OceanSurface area165,250,000 km2 (63,800,000 sq mi)1.00infobox
Pacific OceanWater volumec. 710,000,000 km3 (170,000,000 cu mi)1.00infobox
Pacific Oceanis alargest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions0.90text
Pacific Oceanis alargest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere and covers approximately 460.90text
Pacific Oceanis aonly ocean which is mostly bounded by subduction zones0.90text
Pacific Oceanis adevelopment of deep-sea mining0.90text
magnesiuminstance ofDeep-sea mining is aimed at extracting manganese nodules that contain minerals0.80text

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