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 ...

Cartographers at the National Geographic have finally recognised Antarctica's Southern Ocean on their maps, bringing their ... band that lies at around a latitude of 60°. Inside the current ...

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 ...

National Geographic said on Tuesday it will be adding a fifth ocean to its maps. The Southern Ocean is the ... from the coastline to the 60 degrees latitude mark. —National Geographic (@NatGeo ...

“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.

The current extends out to 60 degrees south latitude and appeared ... as well as from a map-labeling standpoint, to bring attention to the Southern Ocean as a fifth ocean," Tait explained to ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...