Ma r i t i M e tr i v i a
Lowtide
Potamology is the study of rivers. The deepest trench in the world, the
By Br y a n He n r y
Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, is
The Mississippi River drains more 28 times deeper than the Empire State
than 1,240,000 square miles of all or Building is tall.
part of 31 states.
The Mediterranean Sea’s greatest
How can you remember the names The distance across the Pacific depth is 14, 450 feet, off Cape Matapan,
of the five great lakes? Easy. Remember Ocean from Panama to the Gulf of Greece.
the acronym H.O.M.E.S - Huron, Thailand is 10,500 miles.
Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. The deepest point in the Gulf of
Sanyo, founded in 1947, means Mexico is Sigsbee Deep, 12,714 feet,
Lake Superior, the world’s largest “three oceans” because the founder, off the coast of Mexico. The gulf is about
freshwater lake, is is bigger than South Toshio Iue, aimed to sell across the 1,100 miles wide and 800 miles north to
Carolina and nearly 30 times as large as Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. south and is bordered by five states.
Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state.
Lake Baikal in Siberia, covering 12,
150 square miles, contains 20 percent
of the world’s fresh water. It’s the world’s
deepest lake and is more than a mile
deep.
The world’s narrowest navigable
strait is a mere 131 feet and is found
between Evvoia, a Greek island, and
mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea.
The United States has 12, 383 miles
of coastline, with more than half of it -
6,640 miles - in Alaska.
The general coastline of the United
States is 12,383 miles, but its tidal
shoreline is 88, 633 miles.
The Indian Ocean was named for
the large country of India to its north.
The third largest of the world’s
oceans, the Indian Ocean contains
about 5,000 islands.
The Indian Ocean, unlike the
Atlantic and Pacific, has no outlet to the
north.
The Indian Ocean contains both
the saltiest sea (the Red Sea), and the
warmest sea (the Persian Gulf) on earth.
In the Atlantic Ocean there’s a
10,000-mile-long mountain range, the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, of which a deep
valley snakes through the middle of.
The Pacific Ocean is so immense
that it covers 32 percent of the earth’s
surface.
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