Asia-Pacific: Elevation and Bathymetry

Elevation and Bathymetry The region is home to the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolung- MONGOLIA ma in China) at 8,848m, as well as the deepest surveyed point in the oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench at 10,911m. DPR KOREA JAPAN JAMMU & KASHMIR CHINA AKSAI CHIN The Pacific Ocean is the Earth's largest RO KOREA water body, covering a third of its surface and containing more islands and BHUTAN reefs than all other oceans and seas ARUNASHAL PRADESH combined, the result of undersea NEPAL volcanic mountains whose eroded summits from the ocean's many island arcs, chains and clusters. Most notable VIET INDIA MYANMAR among these are the hundreds of active NAM LAO volcanoes that make up the Pacific Ring PDR of Fire. The total number of islands in the BANGLADESH Northern Mariana Islands (US) Pacific is unknown, but estimated at THAILAND 20,000 to 30,000 and mostly located in PHILIPPINES Guam (US) the south and west. Among these CAMBODIA islands are some of the world's largest, including Borneo, Sumatra and New FEDERATED MARSHALL Guinea. PALAU SRI LANKA BRUNEI STATES OF ISLANDS MICRONESIA MALAYSIADARUSSALAM The main Asian landmass has the MALDIVES highest mean elevation of any continent KIRIBATI at 950m, peaking in the high Tibetan Plateau. To the northwest of these SINGAPORE NAURU mountain chains lie the plains of central INDONESIA Asia, while to the south are the Indian subcontinent and Malay peninsula. PAPUA NEW Elevation Bathymetry GUINEA TUVALU SOLOMON Tokelau (NZ) Depth (m) Elevation (m) TIMOR-LESTE ISLANDS Below 5,000 250 Christmas Island (Aus) Wallis and 5,000 500 Cocos Island (Aus) VANUATU Futuna (Fra) French 4,000 750 SAMOA Polynesia (Fra) FIJI 3,000 1,000 Cook 2,000 1,500 Islands (NZ) 1,000 2,000 TONGA 500 2,500 New 100 3,000 AUSTRALIA Caledonia (Fra) 4,000 Norfolk Island (Aus) 5,000 7,500 Above 7,500

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The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Map Doc Name: OCHA_ROAP_Elevation_2015 Creation date: Jun 2015 Sources: UN Cartographic Section, Global Discovery, NASA, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Feedback: [email protected]