Southern Ocean
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- noun
- /ˈsʌðərn ˈoʊʃən/
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Océano Antártico
- Photo by Dave Walsh: Formerly part of a tabular ice shelf, an iceberg slumps into the Southern Ocean.
- Southern Ocean waters
And as I was thinking this, the sun was going down over the Southern Ocean.
- And as I was thinking this, the sun was going down over the Southern Ocean.
- The North Pacific swells or can also be somewhat as long, but I sometime in my my gut, I feel them a little bit shorter period than the Southern Ocean swells.
Examples
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Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are the least explored and least understood marine regions in the world.
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The South Pole is a continent of ice, thousands of feet thick, surrounded by the large Southern Ocean.
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Down the Atlantic past Cape of Good Hope and into the Southern Ocean.
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...in 50-foot seas in the Southern Ocean.
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The waters of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.
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My chances of survival, if I continue into the Southern Ocean, would not be better than 50-50.
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Here, half a million albatross jostle for space to breed on a tiny island in the Southern Ocean.
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Now he sailed from Tahiti to Cape Horn, through the Southern Ocean.
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Braving the Southern Ocean's frigid waters, a diver finds unexpected diversity on the sea floor.
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The remote Southern Ocean is known for its extreme weather and vast icebergs.
Synonyms
A cold ocean around Antarctica that people call the Southern Ocean
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'southern' (located in the south) + 'ocean' (large body of saltwater), so a learner who knows both words will understand it refers to the ocean in the southern region (around Antarctica). Although it is a named region/proper noun (the recognized fifth ocean), the referential logic is transparent and cross-linguistically obvious.
Etymology
Southern Ocean comes from a simple idea: it is the ocean farthest to the south, circling Antarctica like a ring, so the words southern and ocean describe the place. Today people call it the 'fifth ocean' because it is a separate ocean that surrounds Antarctica.