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unusual facts about Southern Ocean


Azorella

Azorella is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, native to South America, New Zealand and the islands of the Southern Ocean.


Cape Leeuwin

In Australia, the Cape is considered the point where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean; however most other nations and bodies consider the Southern Ocean to only exist south of 60°S.

FORV Sagar Sampada

As of July 2012, Sagar Sampada has completed 303 oceanographic expeditions, which includes one expedition to the Southern Ocean in the winter of 1995-96 for surveying fishery resources in Antarctic waters (Krill Expedition, FIKEX 1995).

No. 11 Squadron RAAF

The squadron became known to the public through its participation in the Great Southern Ocean rescues of wrecked sailors, such as Tony Bullimore and Isabelle Autissier.

Southern hagfish

The Southern hagfish is found in the cold waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts off Southwestern Brazil down to the Southern Ocean and the Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian coasts of Chile and Argentina, including the Strait of Magellan.

Species flock

The Antarctic notothenioid fishes are a species flock of 122 marine fishes that have an adaptation that allows them to survive in the freezing, ice-laden waters of the Southern Ocean because of the presence of an antifreeze glycoprotein in their blood and body fluids.

Sterechinus neumayeri

The Antarctic sea urchin is found in circumpolar waters including the Southern Ocean, the Balleny Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Terra Nova Bay and Victoria Land.

Tasman Outflow

The deepwater current passes at an average depth of 800–1,000 metres from the Pacific Ocean outside Tasmania's southern shores into the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica, the vast 'flywheel' that stabilizes global distribution of heat.


see also

CAML

Census of Antarctic Marine Life describing the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the Southern Ocean.

Fulmar Prion

The Fulmar Prion (Pachyptila crassirostris) is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family, found in the southern oceans

John Balleny

The Balleny corridor through the Southern Ocean would be used by future explorers such as Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Richard Byrd, and is used today by surface vessels resupplying McMurdo and other scientific bases located in and around the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica.

Ross Clarke-Jones

The movie focused on spectacular tow-in rides in the Great Southern Ocean at Cow Bombie, Ship Stern, The South Coast Bombie, and Turtle Dove.

Towson University Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

It coordinates several dual degree programs, including engineering programs with the University of Maryland, College Park and Pennsylvania State University; a medicinal chemistry program with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and a program with the University of Tasmania in biological sciences and aquaculture or Antarctic and southern ocean studies.