Southern Ocean



"The Southern Ocean? We were there right? And yes, that's because THIS, and I mean THIS is the place where Antarctica could be located in there. Recently, this war's getting worse, because they're heading straight towards the Southern Ocean, am I right?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Crash

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. As such, it is regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans but larger than the Arctic Ocean. This ocean zone is where cold, northward flowing waters from the Antarctic mix with warmer subantarctic waters.