Facts about Pasific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is larger than Earth's entire landmass.The Pacific ocean is the largest ocean in the earth. It spans over165.25 million square kilometers (63.8 million square miles)of area .It covers 46 % of the earth's water surface.It is bigger than than all the area of land masses combined.

Pacific Ocean(Photo courtesy: WWF)

Pacific ocean occupies about one third of the surface of Earth.
Marina trench in the Pacific ocean is the deepest point on earth.There are more than 25000 islands in Pacific ocean.The name Pacific Ocean was coined by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.   

Pasific Ocean , body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region 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.

Of the three oceans that extend northward from theAntarctic continent, the Pacific is by far the largest, occupying about a third of the surface of the globe. Its area, excluding adjacent seas, encompasses about 63.8 million square miles (165.25 million square km). It has double the area and more than double the water volume of the Atlantic Ocean—the next largest division of the hydrosphere—and its area more than exceeds that of the whole land surface of the globe. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the shores of Antarctica to the Bering Strait through 135° of latitude, some 9,600 miles (15,500 km). Its greatest longitudinal extent measures some 12,000 miles (19,300 km) along latitude 5° N, between the coasts of Colombia in South America and theMalay Peninsula in Asia. The mean depth of the Pacific (excluding adjacent seas) is 14,040 feet (4,280 metres), and its greatest known depth is 36,201 feet (11,034 metres)—in the Mariana Trench—also the greatest depth found in any ocean.