Water Board

The world's fourth largest island has been isolated for about 88 million years, and many of its plants and animals are unique to the island.

• It is Asia's largest and the world's second-largest lagoon.
• It spreads over the Puri, Khurda, and Ganjam districts of Odisha on the east coast of India, at the mouth of the Daya River.
• It flows into the Bay of Bengal.

The Great Channel is located six degrees north of the equator and is popularly known as the 'Six Degree Channel.

The Sargasso Sea is a region in the gyre in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

It is the only sea on Earth that has no coastline.

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest in the world and makes up approximately 20% of the Earth's water surface.

It is bounded by southern Asia in the north, the Arabian Peninsula and Africa in the west, the Malay Peninsula, Sundra Islands and Australia in the cast and the Southern Ocean in the south.

Oceans in Increasing Order of Size:

1. Arctic Ocean – Smallest
2. Southern (Antarctic) Ocean
3. Indian Ocean
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Pacific Ocean – Largest

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins.

Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins.

Oceans in Increasing Order of Size:

1. Arctic Ocean – Smallest
2. Southern (Antarctic) Ocean
3. Indian Ocean
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Pacific Ocean – Largest

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins.

Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins.

Oceans in Increasing Order of Size:

1. Arctic Ocean – Smallest
2. Southern (Antarctic) Ocean
3. Indian Ocean
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Pacific Ocean – Largest

Important Trenches of the World (Deepest to Shallowest)