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Some Facts About The Ocean

Added 2020-01-05 12:12:28 +0000 UTC

The biggest waterfall ever is in the Atlantic Ocean.

It's weird to think about, but the biggest waterfall in the world isn't on land - it's in the ocean. Seriously. The biggest waterfall is in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. It's where arctic water from the Greenland Sea drops into the depths of the Irminger Sea. It's huge, the equivalent of 2000 of the world's most notable waterfalls, with water that falls 11,500 feet down.

The largest mountain range is also found in the ocean.

The ocean also holds the world's longest mountain range, which is called the Mid-Oceanic Ridge. It goes between all the continents and is about 40,390 miles long (compare that to the Andes, the longest mountain range above water, which is about 4,300 miles long).

Scientists can't explain many of the sounds they hear in the ocean.

There is so much about the ocean that we don't know about, that even scientists don't know about. For example: scientists can't explain a lot of the weird noises they hear in there. For example, in 1997, hydrophones picked up one of the loudest ocean sounds ever recorded (called "The Bloop"), and no one knows what made the noise.

We have only explored 5% of the oceans out there.

The most fascinating thing about the oceans is everything we don't know. According to NOAA, we have only explored about 5% of the oceans so far. For something that covers more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and has so much control over the weather, that is really intense to think about.

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