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Pacific Ocean in numbers

Left column

Geographia, the Complete Illustrated Atlas of the World (2007)

http://www.oceandots.com/pacific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean
http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/extreme2002/mission/divelocation/pacific.html

Thor Heyerdal

http://www.kon-tiki.no/E-Exp_KonTiki.php

Roz Savage

http://technorati.com/sports/article/first-woman-to-row-the-pacific/

Bottom

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 169 Gerhard Neumann, Willard J. Pierson: Principles of Physical Oceanography

http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/c/ch/challenger_deep.html

Central illustration

North Pacific Gyre

http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm&url=http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/marinelitter/publication/docs/plastic_ocean_report.pdf/

Challenger Deep

http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/extreme2004/geology/trieste.html
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/Half-a-Century-Later-1960-Record-Dive-Still-Stands-96555664.html

Bikini bombs

http://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html

Great Barrier Reef

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/greatbarrierreef/

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 161

Tuvalu

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tv.html

90 Miles Beach

http://getaway.ninemsn.com.au/fsaustraliavic/gippsland/17633/ninety-mile-beach/

Skookumchuck Narrows

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 82

Surf Waves

http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/sandiego/a/bigwave.htm

Mauna Kea, Hawaii

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 470
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/BeataUnke.shtml

Galapagos

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/337118,provokes-protests-summary.html

Easter Island

http://dbpedia.org/page/Mataveri_International_Airport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_world

Earthquake

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1960_05_22.php

Right column

Albatros

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/albatross.html

Giant kelp

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 240

Sea wasp

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chironex_fleckeri.html
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/Chironex.html

Cocoa nuts

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/seeds-of-trade/page.dsml?section=regions&region_ID=8&page=spread&ref=coconut
http://www.cieer.org/ethnobiology/era/I1547-3465-02-037.pdf (p. 37)

Tridacna gigas

The Sea, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2006, p. 283