Showing posts with label southern ocean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label southern ocean. Show all posts

5 Mar 2016

15 Differences between Arctic and Antarctic Ocean

arctic and atlantic difference

The polar oceans of the Arctic and the Antarctic are similar in many ways. But there are some major differences between these two oceans. They look similar in frozen ice and vast lands with no traces of humanity. But if we go deeper than we can find these dissimilarities between the two:

7 Jan 2016

Southern Ocean Facts and Useful Information

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Antarctic Ocean Facts


There was no Southern or Antarctic Ocean before 2000, the year of its creation by the International Hydrographic Organization. It is the 5th and youngest among all five oceans. It is the ocean which completely surrounds a continent, Antarctica.

It spreads over 20.3 million square kilometers  7.8 million square miles   area of land, which is close to twice of the area of USA. It has a coastline of 17968 km.

It is a very cold sea. The water temperature varies form -2°C to 10°C  28°F to 50°F   according to the season and time of the day.