Posted on 06/09/2021 2:20:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The 130-year-old exploration and education non-profit 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.
“The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,” National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait said.
“It’s sort of geographic nerdiness in some ways,” Tait said. “We’ve always labeled it, but we labeled it slightly differently (than other oceans). This change was taking the last step and saying we want to recognize it because of its ecological separation.”
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“The Seven Seas” has a nicer ring to it than the “Eight Seas.”
California could sure use that extra water.
It will immediately be cancelled because of its ties to the confederacy.
They took time off from Jew bashing and gender issues for this?
I like them better when they published pictures of nekked indigenous women.
Australia has used that name since at least the early 80s.
I was told the beaches around Adelaide were part of the Southern Ocean, not the Indian Ocean. It’s a worthy consideration, to Australians and South Africans, as there’s no real narrows to declare where the Atlantic stops and the Indian begins, or where the Indian stops and the Pacific begins.
I remember a while ago, a commercial for the navy talked about sailing the 5 oceans.
It was stupid then, and its stupid now
The high point for Nat Geo was when the discussed the sauna rituals of native Swedish women.
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