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A view of the South China Sea, Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
Icebergs broken off from glaciers in northern Baffin Bay, Cape York, Greenland
Caesio teres in the South Pacific Ocean in Fiji
Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean
A view of Filfla and the Mediterranean Sea. Filfla is a small, mostly barren, uninhabited islet 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) south of Malta.
A panorama of Zanzibar, Tanzania, particularly the Stone Town, taken from the Indian Ocean
Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels
A view of the Southern Ocean from Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Princetown, Victoria, Australia
Satellite view of the Pacific Ocean and the main windward Hawaiian Islands
A sea anemone in the Pacific Ocean, Baja California, Mexico
A view of Myrtos Beach and the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece
A mother sperm whale and her calf in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mauritius
A surfer in the Pacific Ocean at the 2010 Mavericks competition, village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, northern California

Introduction

The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific (the largest), Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic (the smallest). Seawater covers approximately 361,000,000 km² (139,000,000 sq mi) of the planet. The ocean is the principal component of Earth's hydrosphere, and therefore integral to life on Earth. Acting as a huge heat reservoir, the ocean influences climate and weather patterns, the carbon cycle, and the water cycle. (Full article...)

Waves in Pacifica, California

Sea refers to a large body of salty water, specifically of seawater. There are particular seas and the sea. The body of saline water that is generally referred to as the sea, is a body of salt water that extends as ocean water and ocean (or world ocean) over approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea), or certain large, entirely landlocked, saltwater lakes (e.g. the Caspian Sea). (Full article...)

Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean', and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries. These diverse topics reflect multiple disciplines that oceanographers utilize to glean further knowledge of the world ocean, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, climatology, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology and physics. Paleoceanography studies the history of the oceans in the geologic past. An oceanographer is a person who studies many matters concerned with oceans, including marine geology, physics, chemistry and biology. (Full article...)

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The Great American Interchange, a faunal exchange that occurred after formation of the Isthmus of Panama bridged North and South America. Examples of migrant species in both Americas are shown.

The Central American Seaway (also known as the Panamanic Seaway, Inter-American Seaway and Proto-Caribbean Seaway) was a body of water that once separated North America from South America. It formed during the Jurassic (200–154 Ma) during the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea, and closed when the Isthmus of Panama was formed by volcanic activity in the late Pliocene (2.76–2.54 Ma).

The closure of the Central American Seaway had tremendous effects on oceanic circulation and the biogeography of the adjacent seas, isolating many species and triggering speciation and diversification of tropical and sub-tropical marine fauna. The inflow of nutrient-rich water of deep Pacific origin into the Caribbean was blocked and so local species had to adapt to an environment of lower productivity. It had an even larger impact on terrestrial life. The seaway had isolated South America for much of the Cenozoic, which allowed the evolution of a wholly-unique diverse mammalian fauna there. When it closed, a faunal exchange with North America ensued and led to the extinction of many of the native South American forms. (Full article...)

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Captain James Young's capture of a Spanish frigate in 1799 (illustrated) brought each of his seamen the equivalent of ten years' pay in prize money.

Observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes.

The snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea.

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Image 1A female warty squid (Moroteuthis ingens) (from Southern Ocean)
Image 2Banks of the North-West Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 3Madagascar's Elephant bird, Mauritius's Dodo bird and ostrich (from left to right) (from Indian Ocean)
Image 4Based on the medieval Íslendingasögur sagas, including the Grœnlendinga saga, this interpretative map of the "Norse World" shows that Norse knowledge of the Americas and the Atlantic remained limited. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 5Sea cover in the Arctic Ocean, showing the median, 2005 and 2007 coverage (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 6On the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean temporary logistic stations may be installed, Here, a Twin Otter is refueled on the pack ice at 86°N, 76°43‘W. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 7Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, U.S. in 2020 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 8Map showing a large number of Spanish expeditions across the Pacific Ocean from the 16th to 18th centuries including the Manila galleon route between Acapulco and Manila, the first transpacific trade route in world history (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 9Aldabra giant tortoise from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles (from Indian Ocean)
Image 10The bathyscaphe Trieste before her record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 23 January 1960 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 11Major ocean trade routes in the world include the northern Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 12A copepod (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 13Typhoon Tip at global peak intensity on 12 October 1979 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 14Marine debris strewn over the beaches of the South Atlantic Inaccessible Island (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 15Iceberg A22A in the South Atlantic Ocean (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 16Area inside the black line indicates the area constituting the Pacific Ocean prior to 2002; darker blue areas are its informal current borders following the recreation of the Southern Ocean and the reinclusion of marginal seas. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 17Air pollution in South Asia spread over the Bay of Bengal and beyond. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 18The island geography of the Pacific Ocean Basin (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 19USS Vincennes at Disappointment Bay, Antarctica in early 1840 (from Southern Ocean)
Image 20Continents and islands of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 21Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station. Tops of thunderclouds are also visible. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 22An unnamed Chagossian on Diego Garcia in 1971 shortly before the British expelled the islanders when the island became a U.S. military base. The man spoke a French-based creole language and his ancestors were most likely brought to the uninhabited island as slaves in the 19th century. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 23Manganese nodule (from Southern Ocean)
Image 24The Antarctic Ocean, as delineated by the draft 4th edition of the International Hydrographic Organization's Limits of Oceans and Seas (2002) (from Southern Ocean)
Image 25In the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic warm subtropical waters are transformed into colder subpolar and polar waters. In the Labrador Sea this water flows back to the subtropical gyre. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 26Model of a Fijian drua, an example of an Austronesian vessel with a double-canoe (catamaran) hull and a crab claw sail (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 27Picture of the Pacific Ocean, taken from space by the Apollo 11 crew in July 1969 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 28Waves in the trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean—areas of converging winds that move along the same track as the prevailing wind—create instabilities in the atmosphere that may lead to the formation of hurricanes.
Image 29Frank Hurley: As time wore on it became more and more evident that the ship was doomed (Endurance trapped in pack ice), National Library of Australia. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 30Maris Pacifici by Ortelius (1589). One of the first printed maps to show the Pacific Ocean (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 31"Terres Australes" [sic] label without any charted landmass (from Southern Ocean)
Image 32Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 33As the Gulf Stream meanders across the North Atlantic from the North American east coast to Western Europe its temperature drops by 20 °C (36 °F).
Image 34Malé's population has increased from 20,000 people in 1987 to more than 220,000 people in 2020. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 35Location of the Southern Ocean gyres (from Southern Ocean)
Image 36A map of Australia's official interpretation of the names and limits of oceans and seas around Australia (from Southern Ocean)
Image 37Path of the thermohaline circulation. Purple paths represent deep-water currents, while blue paths represent surface currents.
Image 38Distribution of the major water mass in the Arctic Ocean. The section sketches the different water masses along a vertical section from Bering Strait over the geographic North Pole to Fram Strait. As the stratification is stable, deeper water masses are denser than the layers above. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 39The Aethiopian Ocean in a 1710 French map of Africa (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 40Decrease of old Arctic Sea ice 1982–2007 (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 41False color map of ocean depth in the Atlantic basin (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 42The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 43Capture of Atlantic north-west cod in million tons (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 441937 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
Image 45For most of the 16th century, the Portuguese dominated the Indian Ocean trade. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 46The Kennedy Channel. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 47Famous official portrait of Captain James Cook who proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe. "He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it." (from Southern Ocean)
Image 48Seas that are parts of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 49A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) on South Georgia (from Southern Ocean)
Image 50The regions, island nations, and territories of Oceania (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 51In 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Suga declined to drink the bottle of Fukushima's treated radioactive water that he was holding, which would otherwise be discharged to the Pacific. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 52Pacific Ocean currents have created three islands of debris. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 53Agulhas Bank (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 54Greco-Roman trade with ancient India according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei 1st century CE (from Indian Ocean)
Image 55Impact of El Niño and La Niña on North America (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 56Banks of the North-East Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 57The 1564 Typus Orbis Terrarum, a map by Abraham Ortelius, showed the imagined link between the proposed continent of Antarctica and South America. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 58James Weddell's second expedition in 1823, depicting the brig Jane and the cutter Beaufroy (from Southern Ocean)
Image 59A bathymetric/topographic map of the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding lands. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 60An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 61Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are the most southerly of Antarctic mammals. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 621928 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
Image 63The Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 64A general delineation of the Antarctic Convergence, sometimes used by scientists as the demarcation of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 65Admiral von Bellingshausen (from Southern Ocean)
Image 66Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars taking over Tahiti on 9 September 1842 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 67Made in 1529, the Diogo Ribeiro map was the first to show the Pacific at about its proper size (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 68Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are a keystone species of the food web. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 69Minke whale (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 70Excavation of the Ertebølle middens in 1880 (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 71Density structure of the upper 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the Arctic Ocean. Profiles of temperature and salinity for the Amundsen Basin, the Canadian Basin and the Greenland Sea are sketched. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 72Sunset in Monterey County, California, U.S. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 73Portrait of Edmund Halley by Godfrey Kneller (before 1721) (from Southern Ocean)
Image 74The economically important Silk Road was blocked from Europe by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 75Map showing the migration of the Austronesian peoples (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 76Coral reefs of the Maldives (from Indian Ocean)
Image 77Regional Working Group zones for SOOS (from Southern Ocean)
Image 78An iceberg being pushed out of a shipping lane by (L to R) USS Burton Island, USS Atka, and USS Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1965 (from Southern Ocean)
Image 79Mombasa Port on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast (from Indian Ocean)
Image 80Severe cracks in an ice pier in use for four seasons at McMurdo Station slowed cargo operations in 1983 and proved a safety hazard. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 81Emanuel Bowen's 1780s map of the Arctic features a "Northern Ocean". (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 821911 South Polar Regions exploration map (from Southern Ocean)
Image 83MS Explorer in Antarctica in January 1999. She sank on 23 November 2007 after hitting an iceberg. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 84The Arctic Ocean, with borders as delineated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), including Hudson Bay (some of which is south of 57°N latitude, off the map) and all other marginal seas. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 85According to the Coastal hypothesis, modern humans spread from Africa along the northern rim of the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 86A Ring of Fire; the Pacific is ringed by many volcanoes and oceanic trenches. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 87Fish of the Notothenioidei suborder, such as this young icefish, are mostly restricted to the Antarctic and Subantarctic. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 88
Upwelling in the Southern Ocean
(from Southern Ocean)
Image 89Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 90A stratovolcano in Ulawun on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 91The International Hydrographic Organization's delineation of the "Southern Ocean" has moved steadily southwards since the original 1928 edition of its Limits of Oceans and Seas. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 92Three polar bears approach USS Honolulu near the North Pole. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 93Bahama Banks (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 94The Atlantic Gyres influenced the Portuguese discoveries and trading port routes, here shown in the India Run ("Carreira da Índia"), which would be developed in subsequent years. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 95Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1702–1707 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 96"Southern Ocean" as alternative to the Aethiopian Ocean, 18th century (from Southern Ocean)
Image 97Universalis Cosmographia, also known as the Waldseemüller map, dated 1507, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South America was generally considered the New World and shows the name "America" for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 98Embarked and disembarked slaves in the Atlantic slave trade 1525–1863 (first and last slave voyages) (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 99Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1754. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 100During summer, warm continental masses draw moist air from the Indian Ocean hence producing heavy rainfall. The process is reversed during winter, resulting in dry conditions. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 101Walruses on Arctic ice floe (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 102The Arctic region; of note, the region's southerly border on this map is depicted by a red isotherm, with all territory to the north having an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F) in July. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 103Cod fishery in Norway (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 104The Austronesian maritime trade network was the first trade routes in the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 105Marine debris on a Hawaiian coast in 2008 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 106Thule archaeological site (from Arctic Ocean)

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