What are the five oceans?

Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean.

Five oceans, the general name of global waters. In the past, the water on the earth's surface was divided into five regions, called five oceans. Namely, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic Ocean.

1, the Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean on earth, accounts for about 46% of the earth's water surface and 32.5% of its total area. The Pacific Ocean extends from the coast of the Antarctic continent to the Bering Strait, with Asia and Oceania in the west and America in the east. North-south maximum width 15500 km, spanning 15 1 latitude. Sea area18134423km2.

The Atlantic Ocean is the second ocean on the earth. It accounts for nearly 20% of the earth's surface area, with an original area of 822 1.7 million square kilometers. After the establishment of the Antarctic Ocean, the area was adjusted to 76.762 million square kilometers, with an average depth of 3,627 meters. The deepest part of Puerto Rico trench is 92 19 meters. It lies between Europe, Africa and South, North America and Antarctica.

3. The third ocean in the world. Located between Asia, Oceania, Africa and Antarctica. Including the sea area of 74 1 1.8 million square kilometers, excluding the sea area of 73.427 million square kilometers, accounting for about 20% of the world's total ocean area. The sea volume is 284.608 million cubic kilometers, and the sea volume is 284.34 million cubic kilometers.

The average depth of the Indian Ocean is second only to that of the Pacific Ocean, with an average depth of 3839.9 meters including the sea and 3872.4 meters excluding the sea. To its north are India, Pakistan and Iran; Arabia and Africa are in the west; Australia, Indonesia and Malay Peninsula in the East; South is Antarctica.

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest, shallowest and coldest ocean in the world. The Arctic Ocean is roughly centered on the Arctic Circle, located at the northernmost part of the earth, surrounded by the European continent and the North American continent, with a narrow Bering Strait communicating with the Pacific Ocean. Connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Greenland Sea and many straits, it is the smallest ocean in the world, with an area of only 6,543,805 square kilometers, less than one tenth of the Pacific Ocean.

Its depth is1097m, and its deepest point is 5499m. Ancient Greece once called it "the ocean facing Ursa major". 1650, the Dutch explorer W. Barents divided it into an independent ocean, called the Great Beiyang. 1845, named by the Geographical Society of London, UK, translated into Arctic Ocean in Chinese. Mbth Arctic comes from Greek, which means the ocean facing Ursa major.

5. The Antarctic Ocean, also known as "Antarctic Sea" and "Southern Ocean", is the fifth confirmed ocean in the world, and the only ocean in the world that completely surrounds the earth without being divided by the mainland. The waters of the Antarctic Ocean are considered as the Antarctic Sea. However, due to the existence of important different ocean currents, the International Hydrographic Organization identified the Antarctic Ocean as an independent ocean in 2000, making it the fourth of the five oceans.