World Atlas 2010 (4th edition)

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Arctic Circle

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Equator

Antarctic Circle

Sea of

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Challenger Deep

35,838ft (10,923m)

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Java

Celebes

Tasmania

New

Guinea

Timor

South Island

North Island

Kermadec Islands

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Wake Island

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East Indies

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New Caledonia

(to France)

American

Samoa

(to US)

Wallis & Futuna

(to France)

Guam

(to US)

Northern

Mariana

Islands

(to US)

Cook

Islands

(to NZ)

Johnston

Atoll

(to US)

Jarvis I.

(to US)

Baker &

Howland Is.

(to US)

Kingman Reef

(to US)

Tokelau (to NZ)

Niue

(to NZ)

Midway Islands

(to US)

ASIA

ANTARCTICA

AUSTRALASIA

Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is 35,838 ft

(10,923 m), or almost 7 miles (11 km), below the

surface of the Pacific. At this depth water pressures

is around 16,000 lbs/sq inch (1,127 kg/cm sq).

Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii rises 33,132 ft

(10,098 m) from the ocean floor to its peak 13,677 ft

(4169 m) above the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and

contains around 9,700 cubic miles (39,731 cu km) of rock.

Sydney

Hobart

Singapore

Jakarta

Manila

Hong Kong

(Xianggang)

Shanghai

Tokyo

Nagoya

Osaka

Vladivostok

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OCEANS

The Pacific Ocean