Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. ... Kiribati is a Pacific island nation of about 130,000 people spread across 33 coral atolls, only 20 of which are inhabited.

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Detailed renderings of the Pacific Ocean floor are a key feature of The Oregonian/OregonLive real-time earthquake map, which draws on a data feed that the U.S. Geological Survey updates every 15 ...

Last month, an eagle-eyed social media user came across a dark spot in the middle of the ocean when scrolling on Google maps. It soon got lots of people talking and wondering what it could could be.

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a refined map of Zealandia, the submerged continent beneath the Pacific Ocean. Using data from rock samples and seismic analysis ...

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

The first comprehensive mapping of ocean wilderness revealed that no part of the ocean is untouched by humans, and only 13 percent could be classified as "wilderness." ...