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GREAT SOUTHERN OCEAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 422 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREAT See also:SOUTHERN OCEAN , the name given to the See also:belt of See also:water which extends almost continuously See also:round the globe between the parallel of 4o° S. and the See also:Antarctic Circle (661° S.). The fact that the southern extremity of See also:South See also:America is the only See also:land extending into this belt gives it See also:special See also:physical importance in relation to tides and currents, and its position with reference to the Antarctic Ocean and See also:continent makes it convenient to regard it as a See also:separate ocean from which the See also:Atlantic, Pacific and See also:Indian Oceans may be said to radiate.

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