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HIGHEST LONGEST BIGGEST LARGEST DEEPEST SMALLEST OF THE WORLD
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Arctic
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Indian
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Pacific
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Atlantic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Arctic Ocean Smallest and shallowest of the major oceanic areas, the shallowness being caused by the surrounding wide continental shelves (up to 1700 km wide). For much of the year the surface is covered by floating pack-ice.
Detailed explanation-2: -The largest ocean in the world-the Pacific Ocean-is ten times bigger than the smallest one-the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean got its name from Fernão de Magalhães, the Portuguese explorer who organized the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although the Arctic Ocean is by far the smallest of Earth’s oceans, having only a little more than one-sixth the area of the next largest, the Indian Ocean, its area of 5, 440, 000 square miles (14, 090, 000 square km) is five times larger than that of the largest sea, the Mediterranean.