Excerpt from The Islands of the Pacific: From the Old to the New The Pacific Ocean is the largest expanse of water in the world, covering an area of square miles more than a quarter of the earth's surface. Its greatest dimensions are miles east and west along the Equator, from South America to Asia, and miles north and south, from Behring Strait to the Antarctic Circle. Its average depth is fathoms, and its greatest depth yet discovered fathoms, or about five and a quarter miles, a depth found between the Caroline and ...
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Excerpt from The Islands of the Pacific: From the Old to the New The Pacific Ocean is the largest expanse of water in the world, covering an area of square miles more than a quarter of the earth's surface. Its greatest dimensions are miles east and west along the Equator, from South America to Asia, and miles north and south, from Behring Strait to the Antarctic Circle. Its average depth is fathoms, and its greatest depth yet discovered fathoms, or about five and a quarter miles, a depth found between the Caroline and Ladrone Islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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