Originally published at: There are now five oceans on Earth, proclaims National Geographic | Boing Boing
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That’s odd, because if you’d have asked me I’d have said 5 and included the Southern Ocean.
I mean, it’s been called the Southern Ocean for a long time, so why does it only count as an ‘ocean’ now?
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the real truth is that there’s only ONE global ocean that covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface
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I think this is a push to bring the Southern Ocean into common knowledge. I’m not sure that I knew about it until I heard of this designation and I’m about obsessed with water as it comes.
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The fifth ocean is Pluto.
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Also newly discovered in the 5th ocean is a gyre of dirt, rock, snow, and penguin poop that is mistaken for a continent.
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Apparently, the phrase “Seven Seas” isn’t geographically correct, then, overcounting by 40% as it does. I’ll bet someone gets in trouble over that.
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Because, for those of us who still love paper atlases, the National Geographic has our number.
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Not many people use this phrase today, but you could say that the modern Seven Seas include the Arctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans.
However, our oceans are more commonly geographically divided into the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) Oceans.
The ancient Greeks had another definition, and the medieval europeans a third.
Last updated 02/26/21
NGS was late to the party.
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Hopscotch songs has been wise for 3 years…
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Pluto right now.
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I heard those were made of rye.
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Nat Geo has really gone downhill since the Cock Brothers bought it.
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