Greatest Oceanic Depths
| Atlantic Ocean | 8,648 m (28,373 ft) Milwaukee Deep, Puerto Rico Trench |
| Arctic Ocean | 5,450 m (17,881 ft) Litke Deep, Eurasian Basin |
| Indian Ocean | 7,258 m (23,812 ft) Java Trench |
| Pacific Ocean | 10,971 m (35,994 ft) Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench |
| Southern Ocean | 7,235 m (23,737 ft) South Sandwich Trench (southernmost portion, at 60°S) |
Read more about this topic: Extremes On Earth
Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or depths:
“... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side, on the ebbing tide,
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.”
—Langdon Smith (1858–1908)