Maps that explain the World
The Panama Canal one of the most fantastic engineering wonders of the modern world, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. About 14 thousand vessels use the Canal each year. More than one million ships have passed through the Panama Canal since it opened.
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If all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, (Antarctica would make about 60 meters of sea-level rise, Greenland about 60 meters) and in mountain ice caps around the globe were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet) and cover all seaside cities.
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We know that the world ocean is bottomless and that the deepest trench in the world has almost 11 kilometers. We also know that the world ocean covers about 70 percent of our planet, making more than 2/3 of Earth’s surface unseen to us. But assume we obtained a way to drain oceans of our world, what would Earth’s exterior look like, exactly?
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The world ocean covers more than 70 percent of the planet’s surface, and around 95 percent of the ocean is unexplored.
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The world according to Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus. In 1942, the oceanographer and geophysicist Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus realizes a fascinating map.
Read moreMajor drainage basins: Atlantic Ocean (about 48.7 percent of all world’s land drains to this ocean) Arctic Ocean (drainage basin
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