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 Antarctic Ocean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Antarctic Ocean, a name commonly given to the waters that surround the ice-capped south polar regions.
While not a naturally defined ocean at all, its northern limit is considered to be the Antarctic Circle.
This zone of water contains a great number of islands, and is evidently traversed by ocean currents that carry icebergs into the southern parts of the adjacent oceans.
www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol1/antarctic-ocean.htm   (80 words)

  
 Southern Ocean -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prior to that, the (The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east) Atlantic, (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific and (A member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived) Indian Oceans were considered to extend to Antarctica.
The geographic coordinates is nominally, but the Southern Ocean has the unique distinction of being a large circumpolar body of water totally encircling the continent of Antarctica; this ring of water lies between 60 degrees south latitude and the coast of Antarctica, and encompasses 360 degrees of longitude.
The ocean area from about latitude 40 south to the (A line of latitude north of the south pole) Antarctic Circle has the strongest average winds found anywhere on (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live) Earth.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southern_ocean.htm   (915 words)

  
 Learn more about Ocean current in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
An ocean current is a current that flows more or less permanently in one of the Earth's oceans.
However the importance of currents is also illustrated by the El NiƱo effect, in which the temporary reversal of an ocean current causes devastating climatic change in South America, whose effects spread as far as Australia.
Ocean currents are also very important in the dispersal of many life forms.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/oc/ocean_current.html   (224 words)

  
 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies Subject Guide - University of Tasmania Library
New Zealand's involvement in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
The BAS is responsible for almost all of the British Government's scientific research in the Antarctic, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands.
Scientists at the Centre are reconstructing past climates by studying chemical records preserved in ice cores collected from glaciers in Greenland, China, Peru and Antarctica.
www.utas.edu.au /library/info/subj/antarctic.html   (1056 words)

  
 Ocean World Encyclopedia topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a list of the topic headings in the Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Oceans and Islands, edited by Anthony Huxley, Putnam's, 1962.
A gazetteer with over 2,000 entries supplements the articles, and a set of reference maps shows the positions of the principle islands and seas.
Aden, Gulf of Admiralty Islands Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Agulhas, Cape Alaska, Gulf of Aleutian Islands Alexander Archipelago Andaman Islands Antarctic Ocean Antilles Aqaba, Gulf of Arabian Sea Aran Islands Arctic Ocean Aruba Ascension Island Atlantic Coast, United States Atlantic Ocean Auckland Islands Azores Azov, Sea of
stommel.tamu.edu /~baum/oceans-and-islands.html   (476 words)

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