Twenty Two Facts About the Pacific Ocean!

Twenty Two Facts About the Pacific Ocean!

Twenty Two Facts About the Pacific Ocean!
1. The Pacific Ocean is the earth’s biggest ocean.
2. It covers 63.8 million square miles of the world.
3. The Pacific Ocean makes up forty six percent of the water surface on the world.
4. The very last ocean found by the Europeans was the Pacific Ocean.
5. Who was the first European explorer to find the Pacific Ocean? A Spanish explorer by the name of Balboa!
6. Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean on September 25th, 1513.
7. The Pacific Ocean reaches Asia, Australia, North America and from the Arctic Ocean to Antartica.
8. It is so huge that it covers more area than all the land masses in the whole entire earth combined!
9. The Pacific Ocean was named by Ferdinand Magellan, an explorer from Portugal. He named it “mar pacifico”.
10. The Pacific Ocean gets its name from the word “pace” in Latin which translates to peace.
11. The Ring of Fire is in the Pacific Ocean.
12. Seventy five percent of all active volcanoes can be found in the Pacific Ocean.
13. The Coral reef, which lives in the Pacific Ocean, is actually a living sea creature which provides a home for other fish.
14. Typhoons (tropical cyclones) often form in the Pacific Ocean’s northwest area.
15. The Pacific Ocean borders fifty-five countries.
16. The deepest ocean trench in the world, Marinas Trench, is in the Pacific Ocean.
17. Marinas Trench’s depth reaches about 7 miles long, which is more than the height of Mt. Everest.
18. The Great Barrier Reef, the longest reef, is in the Pacific Ocean.
19. The Pacific Ocean is home to more than twenty-five thousand islands.
20. Most of the islands in the Pacific are south of the Equator.
21. The islands that exist in the Pacific consist of four different kinds: continental, coral reefs, high islands, and lastly, lifted coral platforms.
22. Many pearls are harvested from the Pacific.