On Wed, 26 May 2004 19:04:28 +0100, Roger <[email hidden]>
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The message <[email hidden]> from Phil Cook <u-r-walk@p-t- cook.RfErMeOeVsEeCrAvPeS.co.uk> contains these words:
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:35:21 -0700, Katherine wrote:
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North and South America, along with Central America, make up the western hemisphere.
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Along with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Not to mention Ireland, Wales, Scotland, most of England, a bit of France, Portugal, most of Spain and even the eastern tip of Siberia in Europe. Greenland and Iceland in who knows where and a sizeable chunk of West Africa comprising a dozen or more national elements.
Oceans are a better dividing line than an arbitary 0deg... But I get the point...
I would quibble at Chukotka even being Siberia, but sure aint Europe
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:48:06 +0200, "Mark South" <[email hidden]>
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In future, I have decided to call the Isle of Wight "Lumpaland". I don't think it's a *proper* island, and who cares what the maps say about the names of features?
The inhabitants have much the same view of what they refer to as "the North Island".
On Fri, 28 May 2004 19:11:37 +0100, Roger <[email hidden]>
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Even so, the nice people at the British Antarctic Survey really believe in the existence of the Southern Ocean :-)
But where is it? Antarctica is ultimately bounded by the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans with a couple of well known seas (Ross, Weddell) and several totally obscure (Bellingshausen, Amundsen,Mackenzie) seas wedged in between.
There is a case for the waters beyond the Antarctic convergance being treated separately for practical reasons.. Once that temprature barrier is passed you are in a different world. Barriers and divisions need not be land masses.
Just a thought.. I will settle for the big three though
There is a case for the waters beyond the Antarctic convergance being treated separately for practical reasons.. Once that temprature barrier is passed you are in a different world. Barriers and divisions need not be land masses.
A fair point, but that would be the difference between a sea and an ocean. Seas tend to be relatively small bodies of water adjacent to or surrrounded by land.
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Just a thought.. I will settle for the big three though
Three oceans, lots of seas. A southern sea makes sense, but not a southern ocean.
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RJ Webb said:
There is a case for the waters beyond the Antarctic convergance being treated separately for practical reasons.. Once that temprature barrier is passed you are in a different world. Barriers and divisions need not be land masses.
A fair point, but that would be the difference between a sea and an ocean. Seas tend to be relatively small bodies of water adjacent to or surrrounded by land.
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Just a thought.. I will settle for the big three though
Three oceans, lots of seas. A southern sea makes sense, but not a southern ocean.
In future, I have decided to call the Isle of Wight "Lumpaland". I don't think it's a *proper* island, and who cares what the maps say about the names of features? -- "I would recommend Iowa or North Dakota for your dip into reality." - Ed Dolan in alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
In future, I have decided to call the Isle of Wight "Lumpaland". I don't think it's a *proper* island, and who cares what the maps say about the names of features?
Not sure exactly what point you're trying to make, but as you may or may not recall, I pointed out that there's no Southern Ocean named on the map. My last point, in agreement with Richard, was that if there is a distinctly separate body of water around Antarctica, then logically it would be a sea, not an ocean. Oceans are vast things, seas are smaller bodies of water associated with nearby land.
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In future, I have decided to call the Isle of Wight "Lumpaland". I don't think it's a *proper* island, and who cares what the maps say about the names of features?
Not sure exactly what point you're trying to make, but as you may or may not recall, I pointed out that there's no Southern Ocean named on the map.
It's called that on all the charts I've seen.
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My last point, in agreement with Richard, was that if there is a distinctly separate body of water around Antarctica, then logically it would be a sea, not an ocean. Oceans are vast things, seas are smaller bodies of water associated with nearby land.
It surrounds the continent, not the continent it. Surely a wet thing big enough to surround a big continent qualifies as an ocean? -- Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen
