National Geographic has officially recognized the Southern Ocean as the world's fifth ocean. Also known as the Antarctic Ocean or Austral Ocean, the Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica, which is ...

This map represents the vision of Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, Claudius Ptolemy, who believed the Indian Ocean was landlocked. Writing in his Geographia in the 2nd century ...

Watch on National Geographic says the Southern Ocean is defined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which began 34 million years ago when Antarctica and South America split apart.

National Geographic has officially recognized the Southern Ocean as the world's fifth ocean. Also known as the Antarctic Ocean or Austral Ocean, the Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica, which is ...

The National Geographic knows a thing or two about maps: They've been making them since 1915. Over those 106 years the famed publication has listed four oceans on Earth — the Atlantic, Pacific ...

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A ship sails on the Southern Ocean in Antarctica. Photo: AFP via Getty Images National Geographic has officially recognized a fifth ocean on planet Earth.

National Geographic did not invent the Southern Ocean, but it made it official this week, cartographically speaking, adding the body of water around Antarctica to its maps along with the Pacific ...

Previously, scientists in Antarctica used inaccurate maps created 40 years ago to navigate the treacherous continent, according to Michelle LaRue, geospatial analyst at the Antarctic Geospatial ...

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.

For the first time in the more than 100 years that National Geographic Society has mapped the world's oceans, it will recognize five: Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern.