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Southern Ocean

ocean around Antarctica
OceanBodyOfWater ocean Q7354

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
ocean
Official name
Southern Ocean[32]

Location

Location
Southern Hemisphere[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -65.000°, 90.000°
Continent
Antarctica[2]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Antarctic Treaty area[1]
Shares border with
Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean[3][4][5]

Population and size

Area
+20327000[34]
More facts +16
Part of
World Ocean[9]
Coastline
+17968
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ -60.000°, 0.000°
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ -78.733°, -163.685°
Described by source
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Different from
South Seas[33]
Has part(s)
Admiralty Bay, Amundsen Sea, Antarctic Bottom Water, Antarctic Intermediate Water, Bellingshausen Sea, Cosmonauts Sea, Davis Sea, Drake Passage, D'Urville Sea, Mawson Sea, Ross Sea, Scotia Sea, Somov Sea, St. Nicholas Cove, Weddell Sea, Tryne Fjord, Thala Fjord, Dogs Leg Fjord, Nella Fjord, Nielsen Fjord, Laubeuf Fjord, Langnes Fjord, Krok Fjord, Lallemand Fjord, Briand Fjord, Bourgeois Fjord, Bigourdan Fjord, Étienne Fjord, Ellis Fjord, Cirque Fjord, Clemence Fjord, Johnston Firth, Innerster Fjord[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T032439Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
Named after
south, Antarctica[6][7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Permanent duplicated item
Southern Ocean
Topic has template
Template:Southern Ocean[31]
Vertical depth
+7235, +7235
Volume as quantity
+71800000[35]
🏷️ Also known as
en Antarctic Ocean en South Polar Ocean en Southern Ocean en Great Southern Ocean ar المحيط المتجمد الجنوبي ar المحيط الجنوبي ar محيط متجمد جنوبي ar المحيط الجنوبي المتجمد ar محيط جنوبي cs Jižní ledový oceán cs Antarktický oceán cs Jižní oceán da Sydlige Ishav de Südlicher Ozean de Südpolarmeer de Antarktik de Südliches Eismeer de Antarktischer Ozean el Νότιος Ωκεανός es Océano Glacial Antártico
🔖 Identifiers · 55
VIAF cluster ID
316732340
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85005488
GND ID
4058444-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Location Southern Ocean.svg ↗
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
pietu-vandenynas
BBC News topic ID
cgqyg3n5vv3t
BBC Things ID
04943805-c0bd-46e1-9d2e-000eed167b97
BabelNet ID
00004480n
British Museum place ID
x114502
Colon Classification
SG--983
Comic Vine ID
4020-58173
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
75510
Show all 55 identifiers +43
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Southern-Ocean
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
austral-ocean-glacial-antarctique
EuroVoc ID
2108
Freebase ID
/m/06nqw
GCMD keyword ID
b791f381-1c1c-4958-bc7d-b72a15da1174
GEMET ID
464
GeoNames ID
4036776
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1112234
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
ocea-antartic
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0004280, 0006193
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Sørishavet
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4931958
Interlingual Index ID
i84975
J9U entity ID
987007295598005171
KBpedia ID
SouthernOcean
Larousse ID
divers/océan_Austral/106791, divers/océan_Antarctique/105650
Marine Regions Geographic ID
1907
NDL Authority ID
00643931
NL CR AUT ID
ge128382
Namuwiki ID
남극해
New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
56588, 48975
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
204
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4019313
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
南極海
Quora topic ID
Southern-Ocean
SNARC ID
Karl Henrici
ScienceDirect topic ID
earth-and-planetary-sciences/southern-ocean, earth-and-planetary-sciences/antarctic-ocean
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1200463
State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia) ID
5001824
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Southern Ocean
Topic's main category
Category:Southern Ocean
Treccani ID
oceano-australe
UK Archival Thesaurus ID
f2/mt240/4398/256
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept2479
Vikidia article ID
eu:Ozeano_Antartikoa, ca:Oceà_Antàrtic, fr:Océan_Austral
Wellcome Collection concept ID
engy9gw4
Who's on First ID
404528707
WikiKids ID
Zuidelijke_Oceaan
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
14152793
YSA ID
Y105400
YSO ID
105400
Yale LUX ID
place/76c5290e-97a3-4fca-8436-a476179e5b01
Yle topic ID
18-205979
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Pontianak 2026-09-26 H/OCN GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 358
Victoria, Western Australia, Antarctic Peninsula, Peter I Island, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands, Ross Island, Antarctic Circumpolar Current +350 more
Has these parts 28
Ross Sea, Weddell Sea, Drake Passage, Amundsen Sea, Scotia Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, D'Urville Sea, Davis Sea +20 more
Has part(s) 26
Ross Sea, Weddell Sea, Drake Passage, Amundsen Sea, Scotia Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, D'Urville Sea, Davis Sea +18 more
← Located in/on physical feature 6
Ross Sea, Peter I Island, South Shetland Islands, Southwest Indian Ridge, Bouvet Triple Junction, Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
← Mouth of the watercourse 5
Henty River, Murray Mouth, Fitzgerald River, Waychinicup River, Alexander River
Located in this place 4
60th parallel south, Nelson Island, Discovery Investigations, Shrieking Sixties
Shares border with 3
Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean
Belongs to 2
Antarctic, World Ocean
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Named after 2
Antarctica, south
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
← Taxon range 2
King Penguin, Weddell seal
Continent 1
Antarctica
Different from 1
South Seas
Instance of 1
ocean
Location 1
Southern Hemisphere
Part of 1
World Ocean
SNARC ID 1
Karl Henrici
Topic's main category 1
Category:Southern Ocean
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Archipelagoes of the Southern Ocean
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Southern Ocean
← Different from 1
South Seas
← Filming location 1
Whale Wars
← Narrative location 1
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
← SNARC ID 1
Yanahuanca
← Shares border with 1
Indian Ocean
← Work location 1
Louis Bernacchi
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-10-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    British Museum place ID → x114502
    "Created claim: British Museum place ID: x114502, Matched to Southern Ocean (#328347418) in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8589|British Museum pl"
  2. 22w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online → pietu-vandenynas
    "Created claim: Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online: pietu-vandenynas"
  3. 23w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID → 75510
    "Created claim: Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID: 75510"
  4. 27w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Antarctic Treaty area
    "Changed claim: Located in the administrative territorial entity: Antarctic Treaty area, fix redirect Antarctic Treaty area → Antarctic Treaty area (details)"
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