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Maps exhibiting the world's oceanic waters. A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into a number of principal areas. Five oceanic divisions are usually recognized: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern/Antarctic; the last two listed are sometimes consolidated into the first three.
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
It contains all or parts of five continents [1] (the whole of Antarctica, the whole of Australia, about 90% of South America, about one-third of Africa, and some islands off the continental mainland of Asia) and four oceans (the whole Southern Ocean, the majority of the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the South Pacific Ocean), as ...
"Southern Ocean" as alternative to the Aethiopian Ocean, 18th century "Southern Ocean" is an obsolete name for the Pacific Ocean or South Pacific, coined by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to discover the Pacific, who approached it from the north in Panama. [24] The "South Seas" is a less archaic synonym.
Country Southernmost point Latitude Antarctica: South Pole: 90°00′S: Antarctic Circle: 66°33′39"S South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) Southern Thule: 59°42′S Chile: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands Cape Froward (mainland) 56°32′S 53°53′S Argentina: Southernmost point of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
Toggle Atlantic Ocean subsection. ... 6 Southern Ocean. 7 Lakes and rivers. ... Islands of the Southern Ocean: Antarctica. Aagaard Islands;
Coordinates: 1]: Basin countries: List of bordering countries (not drainage basin), ports: Surface area: 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi) [2] North Atlantic: 41,490,000 km 2 (16,020,000 sq mi), South Atlantic 40,270,000 km 2 (15,550,000 sq mi) [3]: Average depth: 3,646 m (11,962 ft) [3]: Max. depth: Puerto Rico Trench 8,376 m (27,480 ft) [4]: Water volume: 310,410,900 km 3 (74,471,500 cu mi ...
Antarctica Map of island countries: these states are not located on any continent-sized landmass, but they are usually grouped geographically with a neighbouring continent. Determining the boundaries between the continents is generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use.