There’s a new ocean now — can you name all 5?

nat geo ^

[ReformedBeckite]

So I’m surprised they are saying the Antarctic Ocean was never considered an ocean, and that it was not called the Antarctic Ocean.

I'm surprised too being I've got a few globes before 1910 +/- a few year with Antarctic Ocean on them. They did not know it was a land mass until they were able to fly over it and/or explore it by foot. Up until about 1910 or so they thought it was an Ocean with a big ice cap with a few outer edges that they knew was land but thought they were just small islands being they never really explored beyond their edges.

[Avalon Memories]

Arctic Ocean, I believe

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

We need asterisks for which science(s) are settled and which are not.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Two interesting characteristics of the Southern Ocean.

First is that it is the only ocean that can only be studied seasonally. Before its scheduled and forecast winter season, all surface vessels bug out, and only submarines remain.

Second, it has very little plankton because there is little or no iron in its waters.

When Mount Pinatubo erupted, it was believed that it deposited some 40k tons of iron dust into the oceans. It made plankton bloom all over the world *and atmospheric CO2 dropped a lot*.

But then, “shocked, I am shocked”, the same environmentalists who continually beat the MMGW/AGW drum demanded that iron dumping be forbidden. Which sort of indicates that ‘saving the world’ means a lot less to them than the accumulation of power and money.

[crusty old prospector]

There is only one ocean.

[dforest]

Billy

[nagant]

Below 40 degrees south there is no law; below 50 degrees south there is no God.

[hecticskeptic]

Southern Ocean boundary is a straight line around the earth.
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That’s one way to look at it... Another is that the Southern Ocean is just a doughnut of water surrounding a very large island....

[lee martell]

lol! 1 hit wonder.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

John Prine had something to say about poor old Pluto

https://youtu.be/aRuyIexfpEk

[zeestephen]

Can anyone name the Seven Seas?

(1) Mediterranean

(2) Black Sea

(3) Baltic Sea

(4) Red Sea

Sargasso Sea?

Caspian Sea (land locked)

Persian Gulf?

Great Salt Lake Sea?

Gulf of Mexico Sea?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

The Bering Sea and Tennessee.

[minnesota_bound]

I bet National Geographic will leave Israel off the map now as well.

[Mr. Lucky]

Alright, now that was funny. I'm surprised by the dearth of Uranus jokes, however.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I remember when NatGeo was a poor teens Playboy magazine.

[dgbrown]

Is this so they can blend the temp records to get the story they want?

[zeestephen]

[bray]

Someone will find one of the oceans offensive.

[Tell It Right]

Nat Geo: We're just now catching up to the rest of the world who's received an education in the past 70 years and new there was an Antarctic Ocean all along.

But we'll give it a new name so we look smart for just now catching up.

[libertylover]

Hey, let’s be consistent. It’s either Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean or Northern Ocean and Southern Ocean.

Hey, that would make too much sense.