Tallest Mountain on the Earth is in the ocean

Although Mount Everest, at 8,850m tall, is often called the tallest mountain but actually Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii, is actually taller than mount Everest. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, however, if you measure it from its base, which is below sea level, it is 33,465 feet. If we put Mauna Kea and Mount Everest next to each other, Mount Kea would be 4,436 feet taller.

Antarctic Marine Life

Cryptopygus antarcticus, Springtail False colour, scanning electron-micrograph, of the Antarctic springtail Cryptopygus antarcticus. Cryptopygus is one of the most successful terrestrial arthropods to have colonised the Antarctic continent. Although only 1-2 mm long and weighing only a few micro-grams, it is one of the largest animals to complete its lifecycle on the Antarctic continent. The springtail, which is actually an iridescent black colour, avoids freezing by accumulating antifreeze compounds. These reduce the freezing point of its body fluids in the same way that antifreeze additives prevent the freezing of water in a car radiator. This enables these tiny animals to survive temperatures below -25C.

Laboratory photo of one of the newly discovered bone-eating worms, Osedax frankpressi, which has been removed from a whale bone. Normally only the red and white plumes and the pinkish trunk would be visible. The greenish roots and whitish ovary would be hidden inside the bone.

Spiders the size of dinner plates and fish with anti-freeze to cope with the cold are among 6,000 species discovered living in the depths of the Antarctic seas

This pink species of Epimeriidae is new to scientists and is the first deep sea member of this group

This carnivorous moonsnail lives in the Antarctic deep sea. It can detect food from a wide distance and will moved towards it. Polyps, covering its shell, use the moonsnail as transport to food sources.

Glass-like animals known as tunicates are early colonisers of the sea floor

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region. Arctic Ocean is the smallest oceans exist in the Earth and it lies almost entirely above the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Ocean has an area of 14,090,000 sq km and an average depth of 3,658 m. The Arctic Ocean was covered with sea ice every year and almost with it in the winter. This type of temperature was perfect for polar bears and arctic fox as their home. Even the temperature were cold, the temperature of water is warmer than the air and the ice. It say that almost 80% of sun heat did not reach this place and make the winter season became dark and in the summer season, it always in the daylight.

Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean extends from the coast of Antarctica north to 60 degrees south latitude, which coincides with the Antarctic Treaty Limit. The Southern Ocean is now the fourth largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean, but larger than the Arctic Ocean).

The area of Southern ocean is 20.327 million sq km includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies.The sea temperatures vary from about −2 to 10 °C (28 to 50 °F). The ocean-area from about latitude 40 south to the Antarctic Circle has the strongest average winds found anywhere on Earth.

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's five oceans after the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. The Indian Ocean covers 68,536,000 square kilometers which equals about a 20% of the world's ocean surface. The Indian Ocean touches Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. The Indian Ocean has a unique climate pattern based on seasonal exchange of air masses between land and sea. This pattern is called the monsoon which came from the Arabic word mawsim. During winter, the warmer air masses over the ocean pull in dry air masses from Asia, and the wind blows from the northeast. The tropical monsoon climate, combined with natural links across land and sea, made the Indian Ocean a place rich in plants and animals unique to this part of the world. Spices, tropical fruits, rare jungle

Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean is the second largest Ocean in the world after Pacific Ocean. It is located between the continents of North and South America, Europe, Africa and Antarctica. The area of Atlantic Ocean is about 106.4 million square kilometers and it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface and about one-quarter of its water surface area. It has an average depth of 3,926 m. The deepest place in Atlantic Ocean is the Puerto Rico Trench which is 8,381 m. It says that Atlantic Ocean is the youngest oceans and probably did not exist 100 million years ago. Why it say like that, we will discuss it in the other post. The farthest distance across the Atlantic occurs between the United States and North Africa at 4,830 km. The shortest distance is between Senegal and Brazil at 2,575 km. In the Northern Atlantic currents flow in a clockwise direction, while in the Southern Atlantic currents flow in a counterclockwise direction.

Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean among other 5 oceans. Its area is 155.557 million sq km which mean the area was greater than all of the world's dry land when it’s put together and its look like about 15 times the size of the US and also its covers one third of the earth's surface. The average depth of the Pacific is just over 4,000m and it have the deepest ocean trenches in the world which is Marianas Trench. If we see from the space, the Pacific Ocean is in triangular shape, narrow in the Arctic north and broad in the Arctic south. In the west are Asia and Australia, meanwhile in the east is Americas. The Pacific Ocean has thousands of islands. In the west, there are large islands such as Japan, Taiwan, Borneo and New Guinea. Further away to the east are isolated islands such as Pitcairn, Easter Island and the Galapagos.

where "OCEAN" got its name.

The word of ocean was come from Greek, “Okeanos” which means world-ocean because the ancient Romans and Greeks think the ocean as an enormous river that encircling the world. In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns. Some scientists believe that Oceanus was represented as salt water in Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, which is the two ocean that was known by greek’s people ancient Greeks.

OCEAN...

Did you really know what is ocean? In this blog, we will explore deep down what is ocean and what special it is.Ocean is salty water that separates a lot of land in this earth. Approximately about 71% of earth surface was covered by ocean and these oceans was divided by several principal ocean and seas that have its own personal criteria and more than half of this area is over 3,000 meters deep.

These divisions are:

• Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
  

• Southern Ocean
• Arctic Ocean