Some parts of the Pacific Ocean are so deep that if Mount Everest were placed there, its peak would still be more than a mile underwater!
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Facts About The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean contains underwater lakes and rivers with their own shores and waves — they’re made of extra salty water!
The fastest fish in the Pacific Ocean, the sailfish, can swim as fast as a car drives on a city street — that’s 68 miles per hour (109 km/h)!
The Pacific Ocean touches five continents: Asia, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica!
The Pacific Ocean started forming about 750 million years ago when the giant landmass Rodinia split up and made room for a huge sea!
The Pacific Ocean’s got six awesome zones, like coral reefs and deep dark abysses — each packed with its own cool creatures!
The Pacific Ocean houses the Humboldt squid, which can change color like a chameleon, grow to 6 feet (1.83 meters) long, and hunt in groups of up to 1,200 individuals!
The Pacific Ocean shelters the mantis shrimp, which can punch with the force of a bullet and see colors humans can’t even imagine!
The Pacific Ocean experiences typhoons (called hurricanes in the Atlantic) that can create waves taller than a 4-story building!
The Pacific Ocean’s islands have unique cultures with more than 1,500 different languages spoken by people living around its shores!
The Pacific Ocean is the site of ALOHA (A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment), one of the longest continuous ocean monitoring programs in the world!
The Pacific Ocean contains the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling collection of plastic waste that covers an area twice the size of Texas!
The Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Snailfish lives in the deepest ocean trenches and can withstand pressure comparable to the weight of an elephant standing on your thumb!
The Pacific Ocean’s sound channel allows whale songs to travel thousands of miles underwater, letting whales communicate across entire ocean basins!
The Pacific Ocean is home to creatures like the barreleye fish, which has a transparent head so it can look up through its own skull!
The Pacific Ocean contains more gold dissolved in its waters than has been mined in all of human history, but it’s so diluted that extracting it isn’t practical!
