Geographical Position of the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest in the world. It occupies 1/3 of the surface of the globe and half of the World Ocean. It is situated in the northern and southern hemispheres. It is crossed by the equator in the middle. The Pacific Ocean washes 5 continents: North and South America, Eurasia, Australia and Antarctica. It has an oval form and is very wide near the equator.

The eastern coastlines of the ocean are unbroken. The western ones, on the contrary, are very broken.

There are many seas, gulfs, islands, peninsulas near Eurasia. The seas of the Pacific Ocean: the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the sea of Japan, the Yellow sea, the East- China sea, the Coral sea, the South-China sea, etc.

The peninsulas are: Kamchatka, Korea, Indo-China, Malay and California.

There are a lot of islands near Eurasia and Australia: Aleutian, Kuril, The isles of Japan, Sakhalin, Taiwan, the Philippines, the Greater Sundae islands, New Guinea, New Zealand and so on.

The Pacific Ocean is the deepest. Its average depth is 3.980m.The deepest place is 11.022m.(The Marians islands).The relief of the bottom is complex.

The Pacific Ocean lies in all climatic belts but Arctic. Its largest part is situated in equatorial, subequatorial, tropical climatic belts. The southern part of the ocean is colder than the northern. There are several belts of high and low atmospheric pressure, which influence the air masses, temperature and rainfalls. The trade winds blow in the centre of the ocean, the monsoons in the west. The storms are very often in the south and in the north.

The Pacific Ocean is a warm ocean because its largest part is situated between the tropics. The average t*is +19*C. Near the equator is +25*C-+29*C.In the south and north it is -1*C.

The Pacific Ocean is not salty because there are many rainfalls and a lot of rivers flow into the ocean.

The oceanic currents are connected with the predominant winds. In the north and south the currents form the rings. In the north they are: the North trade winds current, Curocio, the North Pacific current and California current. In the south there is the Western Winds current (the greatest current in the world).

The ocean is rich in fish. A lot of minerals are mined at the bottom near the shores.

The Atlantic Ocean