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An ocean like no other: the Southern Ocean’s ecological richness and significance for global climate – The Conversation AU

The Southern (Antarctic) Ocean is our planet’s primary storage of heat and carbon, and it’s home to extraordinary life forms, from tiny algae and spineless creatures…

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In 2018, a map named after an oceanographer went viral.
The so-called Spilhaus projection, in which Earth is viewed from above the South Pole, was designed to show the connected nature of the ocean basins.
It is a perspective that comes naturally to those who live in the ocean-dominated southern hemisphere.
The Spilhaus map depicts the worlds oceans as a single body of water.Spilhaus ArcGIS project, CC BY-ND
The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like…

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