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I was taught there was an Antarctic Ocean when I was in school (UK, born 1984), so I find this article both surprising and interesting.
by andrewingram 5y ago
I was taught there was an Antarctic Ocean when I was in school (UK, born 1984), so I find this article both surprising and interesting.
- dataflow 5y agoDo you remember if you learned it in a science class or a geography class?
- andrewingram 5y agoFrom my recollection, this would've been at either infant or primary school, so before I had discrete subject classes. But I don't recall there being any scientific underpinning, it was just one of those lists of things we learned, like the planets and the continents.
- dkarl 5y agoMe, too, US born 1977. I learned about it when I was very young, and for some reason the fact that there were "five oceans" really stuck in my head. I have no idea what source I got it from, whether from school or some ancient children's science book from decades before I was born (definitely a possibility.) When I was older I would get stuck trying to name all five oceans before I remembered that there were only four now. It never sounded right to me that there were four, so this finally restores balance to my brain.