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Theory:
The Pacific Ocean
- The largest and deepest ocean on the Earth.
- It covers about one-third of the Earth’s total area.
- It spreads for about 168.72 million sq.km.
Bounded by:
| Asia and Australia | West |
| North America and South America | East |
Stretch of the Ocean:
| From | The Arctic Ocean (North) |
| To | Southern Ocean (South) |
- It is roughly triangular in Shape.
- Its apex in the north at the Bering Strait which connects the Pacific Ocean with the Arctic Ocean.
- Marginal seas: The Bering Sea, the China Sea, the Sea of Japan, Tasman Sea and the Philippine Sea.
- Islands: Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, New Zealand.
- Deepest point:Mariana Trench (10,994 m deep).
- A chain of volcanoes is located around the Pacific Ocean called the Pacific Ring of Fire.
- The Spanish navigator Ferdinand Magellan named the ocean Pacific.