A report on Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Tasmania
4 linksIsland state of Australia.
Island state of Australia.
Winter maximums are 12 °C on average along coastal areas and 3 °C on the central plateau, as a result of a series of cold fronts from the Southern Ocean.
South Australia Act 1834
1 linksAct of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed on 15 August 1834, with the long title "An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonization and Government thereof".
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed on 15 August 1834, with the long title "An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonization and Government thereof".
Also known as the South Australian Colonization Act, the Act provided for the settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 degrees east and 141 degrees of east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 degrees south latitude, including the islands adjacent to the coastline.
Elephant Island
3 linksElephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
Livingston Island
2 linksLivingston Island (Russian name Smolensk, -62.6°N, -60.5°W) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
3 linksRussian naval officer, cartographer and explorer, who ultimately rose to the rank of admiral.
Russian naval officer, cartographer and explorer, who ultimately rose to the rank of admiral.
As a prominent cartographer, Bellingshausen was appointed to command the Russian circumnavigation of the globe in 1819–1821, intended to explore the Southern Ocean and to find land in the proximity of the South Pole.
Antarctic krill
4 linksAntarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean.
Nathaniel Palmer
3 linksAmerican seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
During the 1810s the hides of Antarctic Ocean seals were highly valued as items for trade with China.
Nototheniidae
6 linksFamily of ray-finned fishes, part of the suborder Notothenioidei which is traditionally placed within the order Perciformes.
Family of ray-finned fishes, part of the suborder Notothenioidei which is traditionally placed within the order Perciformes.
They are largely found in the Southern Ocean.
James Weddell
2 linksJames Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
Colossal squid
5 linksPart of the family Cranchiidae.
Part of the family Cranchiidae.
It is known to inhabit the circumantarctic Southern Ocean.