#ocean-facts

The Pacific Ocean is so vast that it’s larger than every continent on Earth combined — and there’s a single straight line you could sail through it for nearly 20,000 miles without ever touching land

The Pacific Ocean covers about a third of Earth’s surface. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ocean facts page, the Pacific spans more than 155 million square kilometres, or roughly 60 million square miles. That is larger than …