Our oceans harbor nearly half of all life on the planet. See the sea in all its forms in this gallery.
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A view from above shows one of the many atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. Like a few grains of rice sprinkled on a sea of blue, the French territory in the South Pacific is a paltry 1,359 square miles (3,520 square kilometers) of land scattered over one million square miles (2.6 million square kilometers) of ocean.
Photograph by David Doubilet
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