Southern Ocean
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| Area | 2033 |
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| Islands | Trinity Island |
| Wednesday Island | |
| Did you know | During winter half of the Southern Ocean is covered in icebergs and ice. |
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| ID | 1038655 |
About Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
Sir David Attenborough polar ship has monster iceberg encounter
... And it is now set to spill beyond the White Continent, into the Southern Ocean...
I can't feel fingertips after rowing in Antarctic seas
... " Jamie was part of a crew of six who battled 30ft (10m) waves, crippling seasickness, icy cold winds and constant terror in Antarctica s Southern Ocean and Scotia Sea...
In Pictures: Inside the floating polar research laboratory
... " We know that iron fertilizes the Southern Ocean, fuelling primary productivity which is photosynthesising and drawing in carbon dioxide and converting it to carbon - and if that carbon is then pushed down into the ocean it is part of our mechanism for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...
Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever 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...
Southern right whales: Tracking unexpected Southern Ocean migrations
...Southern right whales: Tracking unexpected Southern Ocean migrationsThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser...
MH370: Could missing Malaysian Airlines plane finally be found?
... Consistent evidenceHe said: " Realistically we want to be in the Southern Ocean in the southern summer - which is about now...
'Amazing' blue whale numbers on South Georgia
... by the time a ban was introduced in the year 1966, a would have been a sighting somewhere in the Southern Ocean, is extremely rare...
Royal naming for Sir David Attenborough polar ship
... The oceans take up a lot of the carbon dioxide and the heat that we generate, but we don t really know how and where it goes, particularly in the Southern Ocean - this big, deep ocean around Antarctica, said Dame Jane Francis, director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...
