Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is, as you all know, the largest of all the oceans. Its surface area is 64 million square miles and larger than the total land area of the earth, nearly half of the total ocean surface area of the earth.

The average death of the Pacific Ocean is 4,280 meters and the deepest place, Mariana trench near the Philippine Islands is 11,000 meters deep (over 35,000 feet), and then Mount Everest is submerged if it is placed in this trench.

On September 25, 1513, Spanish adventurer Balboa discovered the vast expanse of water while he passes through the land of Panama. That's the first seeing of Pacific Ocean for Europeans.

The name Pacific which means peaceful, is  given by Portuguese adventurer ,Magellan in 1521.

Along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, 55 countries located. Among them, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Australia are included.bMore than 25,000 islands are located in this ocean, most of them  are in the southern part of the equator.

Along the edge of the Pacific Ocean is called Ring of Fire and it is a place where major volcanic eruption and strong earthquakes constantly.75% of the world's volcanoes are located there.

In 1883, the Krakator volcano, located in  the Indonesian archipelago erupted and over 36,000 people died.It is the strongest one in the history of the world.

It released millions of tons of smoke and the earth has been covering by them for months. That year was recorded as an summer-unbeaten one for the globe.

On March 11, 2011,Tsunami  was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast and more than 20,000 people were killed and caused a  nuclear accident.

The total damage of the quake was more than $ 300 billion, making it the most costliest catastrophic disaster in the world.

The US Geological Survey says the main island of Honduras, Japan's main island, moved about 8 feet east.

The distinct characteristics of the Pacific Ocean is coral reefs  which are hundreds of miles long and

they give many species shelter.

The sad thing is that the Pacific Ocean has polluted 100 times more than before in 40 years because of human actions. Scientists said that a giant plastic pile was seen in the northeast of the ocean.

The area of this Pacific gabage patch may be twice of the United States.