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Alaska Current
Oyashio
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ARCTIC OCEAN Kuroshio California
Current
Bering Strait Yukon River Arctic Circle North Equatorial
Current
Equatorial Counter
Current
Anadyr’ Gulf of
Anadyr Anchorage
20m 60ºN East South Equatorial
(66ft) Australia Current
Aleutian Bering Sea Bristol Bay Gulf of Current
Basin 6,102m Kodiak Alaska NOR TH Peru or
(20,021ft) Island Alaska Plain Humboldt
Aleutian Islands Queen Current
7,314m AMERICA
A l e u t i a n Tr e n ch (23,997ft) Gilbert Seamounts Charlotte Vancouver
5,267m
Islands
(17,281ft) Vancouver Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Harris Island Seattle SURFACE CURRENTS
Seamount Tufts Plain Cascadia Columbia
Basin
7,184m Surveyor Fracture Zone
(23,571ft)
M e n d o c i n o F r a c t u r e Z o n e San Francisco
5,561m Colorado
5,999m (18,246ft)
(19,683ft) Los Angeles Westerlies
Kammu
Seamount Midway M u r r a y F r a c t u r e Z o n e 30ºN 30ºN
Emperor Seamounts
Seamounts Islands Seamounts Mountains SE Monsoon North East Trades
Moonless
Musicians
6,800m Gulf of California Doldrums
(22,311ft) Hawaiian Islands Cedros Tropic of Cancer
M o l o k a i F r a c t u r e Z o n e Trench South East
Hawaiian Ridge
Trades
834m Honolulu Puerto SE Monsoon
Vallarta
(2,736ft)
C l a r i o n F r a c t u r e Z o n e Mathematicians Seamounts America Trench
M o u n t a i n s Hawai’i
6,662m
Middle
(21,858ft)
Central Christmas Guatemala SURFACE WIND Westerlies
Basin
Pacific Ridge 3,806m
Marshall
s C l i p p e r t o n F r a c t u r e Z o n e East Pacific Rise (12,487ft) Beaufort Scale Speed
Seamounts
i Basin 0–3 0–10 mph (0–16 km/h)
PA CIFIC L i n e OCEAN Colón Ridge over 5.5 10–25 mph (16–40 km/h)
a
3–5.5
Equator
6,249m Galapagos over 25 mph (over 40 km/h)
(20,503ft) P Galapagos Fracture Zone Gallego Islands
o
Pheonix Nova Trough I s l a n d s 4,567m
Basin
Islands l Marquesas (14,984ft) Rise Bauer
5,451m y Basin SOUTH
Northern Cook Islands Islands
e Manihiki (17,885ft) Marquesas Fracture Zone Lima
n
s Plateau Tiki 5,852m P e r u – C h i l e Tr e n ch
i Samoa Penrhyn e (19,200ft) Galapagos Peru AMERICA
North Basin Basin Rise
Fiji a Samoa s Basin
Basin Basin Tahiti Tuamotu Islands Mendaña Fracture Zone 5
Vanuatu Fiji Society Islands Tuamotu Ridge i East Pacific Rise
Tuamotu Fracture Zone
New Hebrides Trench Tonga Tonga Trench Southern Cook Islands a Yupanqui Nazca Ridge (26,474ft)
7,183m
8,069m
(23,567ft)
Basin
South 10,800m Pitcarn Easter Sala y Gomez Ridge Tropic of Capricorn
Island
Fiji (35,435ft) Island Easter Fracture Zone
Basin 4,602m Chile P e r u – C h i l e Tr e n c h
Kermadec Trench (15,099ft) Roggeveen Basin Valparaíso 30ºS
Basin
Norfolk Ridge
Auckland Louisville Ridge Agassiz Fracture Zone Challenger Fracture Zone
1,426m
North Island New Zealand (4,679ft) 6
Wellington Southwest Pacific East Pacific Rise Chile Rise
Chatham
South Island Rise Chatham Islands Basin
Dunedin Guafo Fracture Zone
Campbell Plateau Bollons Menard Fracture Zone Mornington Abyssal Punta
Tablemount
Campbell Islands Plain Arenas
Cape
Eltanin Fracture Zone
5,415m Udintsev Fracture Zone 6,034m Horn
(17,767ft) (19,798ft) Drake Passage 7
P a c i fi c – A n t a r c t i c R i d g e Southeast Pacific Bellingshausen Plain 60ºS
Basin
4,283m SOUTHERN OCEAN Antarctic Circle Antarctic Penninsula
(14,058ft) Bellingshausen Sea
Amundsen Plain Amundsen Sea ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
Ross Sea
8
Ross Ice Shelf
ANT ARCTICA
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