National Geographic now recognizes five world oceans, including the Southern Ocean, which it defines as most of the waters surrounding Antarctica out to 60 degrees south latitude.

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The National Geographic Society marked World Oceans Day on Tuesday by declaring that the waters around Antarctica will now be known as the Southern Ocean — the planet’s fifth ocean.

According to National Geographic, the Southern Ocean is comprised of most of the waters that surround Antarctica out to 60 degrees south latitude, apart from the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea.

On Tuesday, the cartographers at National Geographic officially recognized the Southern Ocean — also known as the Antarctic or the Austral Ocean — as the world’s fifth and newest ocean.

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Over those 106 years, National Geographic has listed four oceans on Earth — the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic. Now, their maps are getting an update, as the famed publication recognizes a ...

National Geographic says that the Southern Ocean is defined by an approximately 34-million-year-old current called the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). The waters inside the ACC, ...

On Tuesday, the cartographers at National Geographic officially recognized the Southern Ocean — also known as the Antarctic or the Austral Ocean — as the world’s fifth and newest ocean.

It’s not quite Oceans Eleven yet but it’ll do. The Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, was officially recognized by National Geographic Tuesday as planet Earth’s fifth oce… ...

Over those 106 years, National Geographic has listed four oceans on Earth — the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic. Now, their maps are getting an update, as the famed publication recognizes a ...