Question:
How many oceans are there in the world?
nangthuytinh9703
2005-12-18 22:14:50 UTC
How many oceans are there in the world?
Five answers:
shadowise
2005-12-18 22:19:32 UTC
Four: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, and the Arctic. The existance of a fifth ocean is not established:



"This global, interconnected body of salt water, called the World Ocean, is divided by the continents and archipelagos into the following four bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean, and, according to some authorities such as International Hydrographic Organization(IHO), a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean.



Some geographers and some governments but not the US, recognize the IHO as defining official water body names and boundaries. (The US authority is the United States Board on Geographic Names.) The IHO officially sanctioned the Southern Ocean name only in 2000, but its definition by a line of latitude (with IHO members widely disputing which line of latitude) has left its acceptance as a fifth ocean open to question. The National Geographic Society and some other leading geographers and cartographers continue to use "South Pacific", "South Atlantic", and "Indian" Ocean for the waters around Antarctica. A few Oceanographers recognize only three oceans also, treating the Arctic Ocean (or the Arctic Sea) as a part of the Atlantic Ocean."
Technology Expert
2005-12-18 22:20:49 UTC
FIVE



The planet is approximately 71% water and contains (5) five oceans, including the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern. Their borders are indicated on the world image (right) in varied shades of blue.



For many years only (4) four oceans were officially recognized, and then in the spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization established the Southern Ocean, and determined its limits. Those limits include all water below 60 degrees south, and some of it, like the Arctic Ocean, is frozen.
liaksc
2005-12-18 22:22:58 UTC
five

they are Atlantic Ocean,Pacific Ocean,Indian Ocean,Arctic Ocean & Antarctic Ocean.
lordsmd
2005-12-18 22:20:23 UTC
Four major oceans Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Artic
preeencess
2005-12-18 22:19:26 UTC
4- atlantic, pacific, arctic, and indian.


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