Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches ... The British Challenger expedition detected the first evidence of a mid-oceanic ridge running down the Atlantic Ocean, but the ridge was ...

As a vast expanse of largely pristine mid-ocean environment, replete with a suite of largely intact uninhabited atolls, truly an oceanic wilderness, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (408,250 sq km), ...