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 Southern Ocean as never seen before A new map shows the seabed of the Southern Ocean in unprecedented detail Date: June 8, 2022 Source: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and ...

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 ...

Tait said that he and the Society's map policy committee had been considering the decision to officially recognize the Southern Ocean for years as the term was increasingly used by scientists and ...

National Geographic said on Tuesday it will be adding a fifth ocean to its maps. The Southern Ocean is the second-smallest ocean and surrounds the Antarctic. The move was long-awaited, as ...

For the first time since beginning to make maps more than a century ago, the National Geographic Society said it would recognize the Southern Ocean as the world's fifth ocean. The nonprofit has ...

Here’s how it works. Researchers have published the most detailed map of Antarctica's frigid Southern Ocean to date, including the ocean's new deepest point, the "Factorian Deep," which sits ...

The map and the complex methods used to create it were published in the Nature journal Scientific Data. Encircling the Antarctic continent, the Southern Ocean is a key region for the Earth system ...