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Archivein 2018 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/pacificoceanlarg0000wein  \n### GREAT RECORD BREAKERS INNATURE\n\nPublished in 2001 by The Rosen Publishing Group,Inc.29 East 21st Street,New York,NY 10010  \nCopyright ◎2001 by The Rosen Publishing Group,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from thepublisher,except by a reviewer  \nFirst Edition  \nBook Design:Michael de Guzman and Emily Muschinske  \nllustrations on pp.8 and 11 by Emily Muschinske  \nPhoto Credits:Title page and background images on allpages ◎ Liysa King/lmagebank;pp.4◎Imagebank/John P.Kelly;p.5◎ Imagebank/Alan Becker;p.7 (portrait)◎North Wind Picture Archive,p.7(map)◎ Granger Collection,p.7 (ship)◎ SuperStock;p.12◎ Corbis;p.15 (inset)◎ Photodisc;p.15◎Peter Arnold,Inc./Clyde H.Smith;p.16 (starfish)◎ Peter Arnold Inc./Wildlife Pictures;p.16 (scuba)◎ PeterArnold Inc./Jeffrey Rotman;p.19◎Peter Arnold Inc./Fred Bavendam;p.18◎ Steven Hunt/lmagebank;p.20 ◎ Peter Arnold Inc./Auscape;p.20 ◎ Peter Arnold Inc./Wildlife Pictures.  \nWeintraub,Aileen,1973-.  \nThe Pacific Ocean/Aileen Weintraub.  \np.cm.—(Great record breakers in nature)  \nIncludes index.  \nSummary:This book describes the Pacific Ocean,presenting information on is exploration and mapping,its dangers,and its resources.  \nISBN O-8239-5639-3  \n1.Pacific Ocean—Juvenile literature.[1.Pacific Ocean.]1.Title.II.Series.  \nGC771.W452000  \n551.46'5—dc21  \n00-039166  \nManufactured in the United States of America  \nI The Greatest Ocean on Earth  \n2Discovering an Ocean  \n3 The Mariana Trench  \n4 Deep-Sea Volcanoes  \n5 Underwater Disasters  \n6 Winds,Waves,and Tides  \n1 Studying the Sea  \n8 A Glow-in-the-Dark World  \n9 The Great Barrier Reef  \n0 People and the Pacific  \nGlossary  \nIndex  \nWeb Sites  \nJ 551.46 W433p 2001Weintraub,Aileen,1973-The Pacific Ocean :thelaraest ocean  \n56910  \n1314171821  \n22  \n23  \n24  \n24  \nmagine yourself sailing on a ship.You lookaround and all you can see in any direction is theendless blue ocean.The Pacific Ocean is thelargest and deepest ocean in the world.It coversa third of Earth's surface.It is twice as big as theAtlantic Ocean.This great body of water coversabout 70 million square miles(181 million sq km).The ocean is about 9,600 miles(15,450 km)long and 15,000 miles (24,140km)at its widestpoint.It takes a whole day to fly across the Pacific.The Pacific has an average depth of 14,040 feet  \n(4,279 m).At its deepest point,the Pacific  \n#### plunges more than seven miles(11.3 km)down.The tallest mountain on Earth isn't nearly that high\n\nThese kids are sailing on the Pacific Ocean.The Pacific is so bigthat it could hold all seven continents with room for one more.  \nIn September of 1513,a Spanish explorernamed Vasco Nunez de Balboa climbed to thetop of a mountain in Central America.From therehe saw the body of water that would later  \nbecome known as the Pacific Ocean.He was thefirst European to see this ocean.In 1521,Ferdinand Magellan,a Portuguese explorer,  \nbecame the first person to sail across this ocean.He named it the Pacific,meaning \"peaceful.\"Magellan died before finishing his voyage.Hiscrew continued on.They became the first.peopleto sail around the world.It wasn't until the 176Osthat the Pacific Ocean was explored and mappedby James Cook,an English sailor.  \nThese paintings show Ferdinand Magellan and the kindof boat that he used to explore the Pacific.  \n##### Trenches are deep cracks that formwhen Earth’s crust splits apart.","cbCaieFHJZ4er92y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieFHJZ4er92y","pdf",2217730,28,"English","# The Greatest Ocean on Earth\n## Discovering an Ocean\n## The Mariana Trench\n## Deep-Sea Volcanoes\n## Underwater Disasters\n## Winds, Waves, and Tides\n## Studying the Sea\n## A Glow-in-the-Dark World\n## The Great Barrier Reef\n## People and the Pacific\n## Glossary\n## Index\n## Web 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