Pacific Ocean Map Of Ocean Floor Depths
Detailed depth contours provide the size shape and distribution of underwater features.
Pacific ocean map of ocean floor depths. Pacific ocean 2500x1900. 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. The maps also bring erupting mid ocean ridges into sharper focus and help scientists understand volcanic eruptions the vast majority of which occur hidden far from view on the ocean floor. 64 000 000 sq mi 165 000 000 sq km.
2997x2279 2 74 mb go to map. Typically finely wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar. Atlantic ocean 2500x1900. This low resolution bathymetric map shows us the average seafloor depth of a 200m square area.
Top 20 famous castles palaces. In the northern hemisphere the pacific ocean meets the arctic ocean in the bering sea. An overview of the galapagos islands. This is expensive and time consuming so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time.
Bathymetric image of the east pacific rise. At 165 250 000 square kilometers 63 800 000 square miles in area as defined with an antarctic. 83116 islands in the pacific ocean jarvis bake and howland islands 83153 united states possesion kingman reef 83157 palmyra atoll approaches to palmyra atoll. Oceans around antarctics 2500x1900.
Pacific ocean maps pacific ocean location map. Hr galapagos expedition survey area lies within the red box shown on the globe at upper left. It extends from the arctic ocean in the north to the southern ocean or depending on definition to antarctica in the south and is bounded by the continents of asia and australia in the west and the americas in the east. Pacific ocean major ports map.
Online map of pacific ocean. The pacific ocean is the largest and deepest of earth s oceanic divisions. Topographic maps of the sea floor.