Southern Ocean

Earth's oceans; (World Ocean)
	Atlantic Ocean; Arctic Ocean; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Southern Ocean;

The Southern Ocean is a rather new term in geography. It means the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans around the continent of Antarctica out to sixty degrees south latitude. Some people call this ocean the Antarctic Ocean.

The total area is 20,327,000 km², and the coastline length is 17,968 km.

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Southern Ocean around Antarctica (looking up at the bottom of the Earth)

Ice (white) in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica (light purple at bottom) grows and shrinks during the year