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Great Southern Ocean

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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The name given to the belt of water which extends almost continuously round the globe between the parallel of 40° S. and the Antarctic Circle (662° S.). The fact that the southern extremity of South America is the only land extending into this belt gives it special physical importance in relation to tides and currents, and its position with reference to the Antarctic Ocean and continent makes it convenient to regard it as a separate ocean from which the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans may be said to radiate. (See OCEAN.)

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Great Southern Ocean'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​g/great-southern-ocean.html. 1910.
 
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