World Oceans

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All the oceans and seas of our planet combined the concept of "Oceans. " For some properties of ocean waters are different from surface water. The main sign of treatment related to the oceans, is its high salinity, recalls the characteristic bitter-salty taste of the water while swimming in the sea. In the oceans contain 97% of all water on Earth. the land of the water provided by rivers, lakes and underground sources, are just over 1%, and concluded the glaciers around 2% water. But back to the ocean salinity. His role is not limited to the arrival of salty taste in the mouth when the sea voyage. Despite this, of course, very important: You must agree, is impossible to imagine that the novels of adventure so dear to all in childhood, without describing the flow of saltwater in the face of the protagonist, is firmly standing the bridge between the elements rage. But in the novels (For clarity, we can remember that something is happening with a layer of light oil, which always floats on the surface of the soup.) Therefore, a salty ocean water management of complex processes simple through our planet. The largest of the oceans – the Pacific – occupies one third of the Earth 's surface.Therefore is also called the Great. The name of "Silence was attached to it from the explorer Magellan, the first European swimming. Unusually good weather that accompanies long-term, 99 days crossing the ocean, and brought the great adventure of thought to call the Pacific. However, later explorers, found that this "quiet boy – only the most unpredictable and violent of all oceans on Earth. Especially often savage fury of its winds – Typhoon – and damaging waves and flooding have had to endure the west coast of America. The people of Japan and other Pacific islands, and the Chileans and Peruvians have to face the giant waves that has the Japanese name – the tsunami. Two other smaller islands, and Sebesi Sebuku located in the Sunda Strait near Krakatoa, were completely covered with a wave and were swept away not only all the people, but all over the floor. Waves in some places reached a height of 25-35 m. The port on the island of Java, a great ship broke anchor and left for 3 km to the earth at a height of 9 meters above sea level. Waves spread Sunda Strait Indian Ocean and the island of Ceylon has reached the height of 2.6 m, on the west coast of Australia – 1.8 m. The wave took place in the South Atlantic Ocean and reached Cape Horn at 28 h 31 min after the last, most powerful explosion. Come to her and the coasts of Europe: for example, in Le Havre, it was after 32 hours and 35 minutes, going the distance of 20,000 miles – exactly half the circumference of the globe.

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