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Southern Ocean, body of salt water covering the portions of the world ocean and tributary seas surrounding Antarctica below 60° S. Unbroken by any other continental landmass, its narrowest constriction is the Drake Passage, 600 miles wide, between South America and the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Area: 00 sq mi (21,960,000 sq km). Max. depth: 7,236 m (23,740 ft). Written and fact-checked by Ontheworldmap.com team.
Samuel Dunn's 1794 General Map of the World or Terraqueous Globe shows a Southern Ocean (but meaning what is today named the South Atlantic) and a Southern Icy Ocean. A New Map of Asia, from the Latest Authorities, by John Cary , Engraver, 1806 , shows the Southern Ocean lying to the south of both the Indian Ocean and Australia.
Map showing the location of Southern Ocean and other oceans that are all part of the World Ocean. The Southern Ocean is the southernmost portion of the World Ocean. It is located on the lower end of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, and includes the tributary seas around the Antarctic region.
This map shows Southern Ocean bathymetry, ice shelf, ice tongue. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes. Attribution is required. For any website, blog, scientific research or e-book, you must place a hyperlink (to this page) with an attribution next to the image used.
IBCSO is the authorita tive map of the Southern Ocean with the largest database of depth measurements. With billions of soundings contributed by organisations across the globe, it portrays the Southern Ocean seafloor in so-far unprecedented detail.
Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km (18.5 million sq...
This map shows where Southern Ocean is located on the World Map. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes. Attribution is required. For any website, blog, scientific research or e-book, you must place a hyperlink (to this page) with an attribution next to the image used.
This map shows different boundaries of the world's oceans. It is drawn on a base map of the world with latitude and longitude reference lines. The northern boundary of the Southern Ocean is shown at 60 degrees south latitude.
60 00 S, 90 00 E (nominally), but the Southern Ocean has the unique distinction of being a large circumpolar body of water totally encircling the continent of Antarctica; this ring of water lies between 60 degrees south latitude and the coast of Antarctica and encompasses 360 degrees of longitude. Antarctic Region.