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Southern Ocean
[ suhth-ern oh-shuhn ]
noun
- the waters surrounding Antarctica, comprising the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, with its deepest section in the South Sandwich Trench. 8,478,800 square miles (21,960,000 square kilometers).
Southern Ocean
Word History and Origins
Origin of Southern Ocean1
Example Sentences
The Australians speak with awe of what they call the Great Southern Ocean.
"We have the show that may be the closing note on whaling in the Southern Ocean," she said.
It thus comes about that the tide throughout the Atlantic basin is much higher than in the southern ocean.
Only in the southern ocean can the waters obey the lunar and solar attraction in anything like a normal way.
In Otaheite, an island in the Southern Ocean, we are presented with women of a singular character.
The difficulties of sounding in the Southern Ocean were much increased by the almost constant, heavy swell.
The steep swell of the southern ocean breaks heavily along the coast.
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