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Antarctic Ocean

LC control no.sh 85005488
Geographic headingAntarctic Ocean
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Geographic subdivision usageAntarctic Ocean
Variant(s)Southern Ocean
See alsoOcean
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the southern parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans that surround Antarctica.
Found inWorld Book: v. 1, p. 461 (Antarctic Ocean: name sometimes given to the waters surrounding the Antarctic continent. Many geographers say that these waters do not form a separate ocean at all, but consist solely of the southern parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans; also called Southern Ocean)
Web. geog. (Antarctic Regions: Antarctica and the S waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans; in area S of Africa (sometimes inappropriately termed the Antarctic Ocean))
GeoNames [algorithmically matched] sea; 60°00ʹ00ʺS 090°00ʹ00ʺE