THE DEEP SEA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 21 January 1910, Page 7

THE DEEP SEA.

The sea covers three-fourths of the earth', l ; surface, or a total area of about 145,000,000 square miles. The Atlantic Ocean occupies about 25,000.000 square miles, "the Pacific 90,000,000 square miles, and the'lndian Ocean about 23,000,000 square miles. The average depth of water is about 12,000 feet, but this is exceeded in many places. The' Challenger expedition reported a sounding slightly exceeding 27,000 feet, a little to the north of the Caroline 1hI'aiids,, in the Western Pacific. American surveyors have recorded a depth of 20,000 feet off the eastern shores of Japan, and a sounding exceeding 27,000 feet, has been obtained north of the cancer had taken place in direct ratio. Virgin Islands, in th# Yfeat Indies^