The Pacific Ocean is the largest among all other oceans has a total area of 168,723,000 km² which is almost 47% of total water bodies in the earth. It is located between eastern coast lines of Asia and Africa and the western coastlines of the American continents. Arctic Ocean is in the north of Pacific Ocean and Antarctic Ocean in the south. It has the longest coastline is about 135,663 kilometers. In fact, it is larger than all total land area combined. The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on the earth that is in the North Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the most peaceful one.
The Pacific Ocean was conceived 750 million years prior at the separation of Rodinia, despite the fact that it is for the most part called the Panthalassic Ocean until the separation of Pangea, around 200 million years back. The most aged Pacific Ocean floor is just around 180 Mega-annum old, with older outside layer sub-ducted at this point.
The abuse of the Pacific’s mineral riches is hampered by the sea’s extraordinary profundities. In shallow waters of the mainland retires off the shores of Australia and New Zealand, petroleum and gas are separated, and pearls are reaped along the shorelines of Australia, Japan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, in spite of the fact that in forcefully declining volume in some cases.
Fish are a vital monetary resource in the Pacific. The shallower shoreline waters of the mainland and the more mild islands yield herring, salmon, sardines, snapper, swordfish, and tuna, and in addition shellfish. Overfishing has turned into a difficult issue in a few regions. For instance, gets in the rich angling grounds of the Okhotsk Sea off the Russian drift have been decreased by in any event half since the 1990s as a consequence of overfishing.
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List of Bordering countries and territories
Independent Countries
- Australia
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Russia
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Taiwan1
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Territories
- American Samoa (US)
- Baker Island (US)
- Cook Islands (New Zealand)
- Coral Sea Islands (Australia)
- Easter Island (Chile)
- French Polynesia (France)
- Guam (US)
- Hong Kong (China)
- Howland Island (US)
- Jarvis Island (US)
- Johnston Island (US)
- Kingman Reef (US)
- Macau (China)
- Midway Atoll (US)
- New Caledonia (France)
- Niue (New Zealand)
- Norfolk Island (Australia)
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Palmyra Atoll (US)
- Pitcairn Islands (UK)
- Tokelau (New Zealand)
- Wallis and Futuna (France)
- Wake Island (US)
