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Show Pacific Ocean Is Biggest And Has Greatest Depth Pacific distances are fabulous. The world's greatest ocean occupies oc-cupies more space than all the lands on the globe. It would hold two Atlantics and still have room for a few Mediterraneans. More than half of all the world's water is in the Pacific. Its greatest north-south north-south dimension is 9,300 miles, and its greatest width 10,300, writes W. Price, in "Japan's Islands of Mystery." The sun takes ten hours to cross it nearly hall its circle round the globe. No other ocean plumbs such depths. 'Its floor is a third deeper on the average than the Atlantic. A chasm off the Philippine east coast showed a depth of more than 35,000 feet. |