Southern Ocean
Proper noun
Meaning
Southern Ocean
The portion of the World Ocean surrounding Antarctica, variously taken as the waters south of the Antarctic Circle, the waters south of 60° S, or the waters bounded by the Antarctic Convergence.
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At around 41.5 million years ago, stable isotopic analysis of samples from Southern Ocean drilling sites indicated a warming event for 600 thousand years.
But in the Southern Ocean, the momentum imparted to the surface waters cannot be offset in this way.
“According to the BBC’s report, approximately 1.57m sq km (600,000 sq miles) of the Southern Ocean will be spared from commercial fishing for 35 years.
It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
On one occasion I travelled to the Bells Beach Rip Curl surfing classic in Victoria, purely to hear guitar prodigy Slava Grigoryan and violinist Richard Tognetti parody Paganini’s s on a bluff overlooking the Southern Ocean.
Over the course of a month, a team of researchers probed the deep-sea canyons that jut out from Australia’s southern continental shelf like fingers plunging into the chilly Southern Ocean.