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FAST FACTS

Interesting facts about marine
environments and creatures

More than 16 million litres of sewage are pumped into the Humber Arm every day.

Every person in Newfoundland uses 450 litres of water everyday.

Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater and only 1% of water is in a liquid state.

Canada has the longest coastline in the world - stretching 243 789km.

Newfoundland had more than 15 000km of coastline.

Canada borders three of the worlds oceans - the Alantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.

Humber Arm is 24km long and 2km wide and roughly 100m deep.

An estuary is a body of water formed along coastal areas where freshwater flows in the ocean, creating an aquatic environment with a mixture of fresh and saline water.

The Humber River Estuary is the largest estuary in the Bay of Islands

80% of the pollution in the oceans comes from land (municipal and industrial sewage, agricultural runoff, airborne pollutants from factories).

More than 1/3 of the oil pollution in the ocean comes from land.

There are 67 identified shipwrecks in the Bay of Islands.