The Pacific Ocean is a body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the contine...

The Pacific Ocean stretches from the Bering Strait near the Arctic Circle to the shores of Antarctica through 135° of latitude, some 9,600 miles (1...

The deep zone of the Pacific Ocean, which contains about 80 percent of the ocean’s volume, has relatively stable temperature and salinity patterns;...

The highest surface salinities in the Pacific Ocean occur in the southeastern area, where they reach 37 parts per thousand; the lowest salinities—l...

The Mariana Trench, also called the Marianas Trench, is a deep-sea trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, and it is the deepest su...