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I grew up with the Southern Ocean being a thing. It was always marked on Australian maps.

• brabel 5y ago
  But I think that in Australia, it's usually shown touching the whole extent of the mainland's southern coast? By NG definition, that would be incorrect as the "edges" of the ocean at defined as being at 60 degrees South, far away from Australia.
  • simonh 5y ago
    60 degrees might make sense from a South American perspective, but for them anything much further North could put it next to much of Argentina and Chile. I think a boundary based on continental features makes more sense. So a boundary on great circles from, roughly, Windy Harbour Australia, to Cape Town, to Isla Hermite, then back to Tasmania.
  • dwd 5y ago
    Growing up in Warrnambool we were taught that the only thing separating us from Antarctica was the Southern Ocean. Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea began a bit further east and the Great Australian Bight wrapped the coast from WA to SA: The Southern Ocean was considered to be all the water beyond that to the south with the Indian Ocean west of the WA coast. It was never thought to be touching the Tasmanian coast ~4000km further east.