Pacific Ocean

Description

He whakaahua tēnei o te Ao mai i te ātea, e kitea ai Te Moananui a Kiwa rahi. Ko te Moananui a Kiwa te moana rahi rawa, hohonu rawa hoki i Te Ao. Ko tōna whānui kei te 161.8 miriona kiromita tapawhā, ā, i ētahi wāhi neke atu i te 10 kiromita te hōhonu. Me ka tūhono koe i ngā whenua katoa o te Ao, ka rahi kē atu te Moananui a Kiwa i taua huinga whenua.

An image of Earth from space, shows the vast Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth. It spans 161.8 million square kilometres and in certain areas is over 10 kilometres deep. If you put all Earth's landmasses together, the Pacific Ocean would still be bigger.

Image credit

GOES-17 shares first full disk image from new vantage point over the Pacific Ocean by NOAA Satellites. Flickr — credit NOAA/CIRA. Public domain.

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