THE IMMENSITY OF THE PACIFIC
Few people realise the immense size of the Pacific Ocean. Comparing it with the Atlantic is like contrasting the Serpentine in Hyde Park with Windermere Lake. The Pacific is almost a hemisphere of water. It is startling to think that if the whole land surface of the globe could be fitted together like a jig-saw puzzle the resulting surface would not be as extensive as ft! A few figures will prove this. For instance, the well-traversed route from Liverpool to New York is 3,050 miles, but from Yokohama to Valparaiso, a similar southern trend, across the Pacific, the distance is 9,340 miles. Across this ocean’s narrowest part—from Vancouver to , Yokohama — is 4,260 -miles. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the Arctic Ocean to the Antarctic Ocean, and contains 70,000,000 square miles of area. In this vast area are tens of thousands of islands, some little larger than a London common, and others which would be called large elsewhere but are dwarfed by their situation.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13309, 8 April 1941, Page 4
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