Water hemisphere

Water hemisphere

The water hemisphere, sometimes but not always capitalised as the Water Hemisphere, is the hemisphere on the Earth containing the largest area of water. It is centered on coord|47|13|S|178|28|E|, near New Zealand's Bounty Islands.cite journal |last=Boggs |first=Samuel Whittemore |year=1945 |month=December |title=This Hemisphere |journal=Journal of Geography |volume=44 |issue=9 |pages=345–355 |doi=10.1080/00221344508986498] [cite web |url=http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/chapter4.html |title=Projecting the Hemisphere |accessdate=2007-12-14 |author=Judy M. Olson |date=1997 |work=Matching the Map Projection to the Need |publisher=American Congress on Surveying and Mapping] The other half of the earth is the land hemisphere.

The water hemisphere has only one-eighth of the world's land, including Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, a small part of Southeast Asia and the southern part of South America. Most of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are on the water hemisphere. The area of the oceans of the water hemisphere is much larger than its land area, but the area of the oceans of the land hemisphere is still larger than its land area.

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