The waters that scamper round the Antarctic continent are peculiar and deserve to have a title, and cartographers at National Geographic have now dubbed that situation the Southern Ocean.

According to National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait:

“The Southern Ocean has long been identified by scientists, but because there modified into as soon as by no manner settlement internationally, we by no manner formally identified it.”

Over the final 106 years, National Geographic had handiest identified the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans as accurate oceans. On World Oceans Day this week, although, the society added the Southern Ocean to that listing.

“Her Deepness” Dr. Sylvia Earle — a National Geographic-sponsored explorer — cherished the addition of 1 other formally named ocean:

“Whereas there might perhaps be but one interconnected ocean, bravo to National Geographic for formally recognizing the physique of water surrounding Antarctica as the Southern Ocean. Rimmed by the formidably swift Antarctic Circumpolar Newest, it is a ways the best ocean to the contact three others and to fully embrace a continent as opposed to being embraced by them.”

Verify out the corpulent yarn at nationalgeographic.com.