South Atlantic Ocean

noun

1. the part of the Atlantic Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.

Example Sentences

Poor weather is hampering an operation to rescue the crew of a fishing vessel who were forced to abandon ship about 200 nautical miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands, leaving 27 people stranded in the South Atlantic Ocean.

From BBC

Last month Argentina's President Javier Milei called for the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean to be handed over.

From BBC

Dr Payne will be in the Orkney islands with her family this Christmas and then she her sights on St Helena, a remote volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean.

From BBC

One large blue dot at South Georgia island in the South Atlantic Ocean, for example, signifies 130,611 whale catches, most of them fin whales.

From Science Daily

On another Chinese squidder, located on the South Atlantic Ocean, about 370 miles north of the Falkland Islands, a deckhand in the mess hall, where the workers eat, gestured toward a bag of rotten cabbages and onions, the only vegetables on the ship.

From Los Angeles Times