Proper noun
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.
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. Source: Internet
But in the Southern Ocean, the momentum imparted to the surface waters cannot be offset in this way. Source: Internet
“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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet