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June 10, 2021 at 5:59 pm

Earth Officially Has FIVE Oceans!

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by Ian Randall at The Daily Mail

Cartographers at the National Geographic have finally recognised Antarctica’s Southern Ocean on their maps, bringing their count of Earth’s oceans to five.

The society — which has been releasing maps of the world since 1915 — publicly announced their new policy yesterday, to coincide with World Ocean Day.

National Geographic have defined the ocean as being bound by the current that flows around Antarctica — with a northernmost reach up to the 60th parallel south.

The Southern Ocean joins the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific on their charts, although the Antarctica-encircling body’s status remains internationally contested.

Nevertheless, National Geographic hope their revised maps will help people think differently about the Southern Ocean, thereby encouraging its conservation.

‘The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists,’ explained National Geographic Society geographer Alex Tait in the announcement.

‘But because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it. It’s sort of geographic nerdiness in some ways,’ he added.

‘We’ve always labelled it, but we labelled it slightly differently [than the 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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