there's a new ocean on the map. That's according to National Geographic, which Tuesday announced that it is officially recognizing the body of water surrounding the Antarctic as the Southern ...

The trench crosses the 60th parallel south, an invisible circle of latitude that is 60 degrees ... Factorian Deep in a sprawling new map of the Southern Ocean's undersea mountains, canyons and ...

It directly surrounds Antarctica, extending from the continent's coastline to 60 degrees south latitude ... the world's water. Our maps are updated. The Southern Ocean is treated the same as ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — You may need to get a new map ... 60 degrees south latitude, excluding the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea, make up the newly acknowledged Southern Ocean.

“Oceanographers will probably rejoice that (the Southern Ocean) will be on Nat Geo maps,” says CNN’s climate ... officially uses the 60 degree south latitude to draw the water border.

This doesn't necessarily change much, however, as the Southern Ocean was already widely recognized by scientists and maps, but the Southern ... centered broadly "around a latitude of 60 degress ...

Those maps are now being redrawn.A fifth ocean has been designated by the magazine: the icy waters surrounding Antarctica below the Earth's southern ... centered around a latitude of 60 degrees ...

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO) has taken five years to compile and update this map, which was first published in 2013. Current Edition Topics ...

An international team of scientists and cartographers has released the most detailed map ever of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. It covers 48 million km² (19 million ...

As Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm, biodiversity in the global ocean is increasingly at risk. Previous studies have shown the Southern Ocean has absorbed ... at least the high latitude regions ...

National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is officially recognizing the body of water surrounding the Antarctic as the Earth's fifth ocean: the Southern Ocean. The change marks the first time ...