The principal divisions (in descending order of area) are the: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. Smaller regions of the oceans are called seas, gulfs, bays, straits, and other terms. Geologically, an ocean is an area of oceanic crust covered water. The Great Ocean Divide. The five countries with coastlines along the Arctic Ocean are making a case to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for extended continental shelf seafloor beyond their exclusive economic zones to gain rights to resources on and under the seabed. The world's five oceans contain 97 percent of the planet's water supply. Together, they combine to form the "world ocean. Photos dubbed the place where two oceans meet have been making the rounds on the Internet for years, but there's a lot of misinformation out Basically, the easily distinguishable areas where the world ocean seems divided the continents, we name them as oceans, in a similar way Where the Pacific ends and the Indian or Atlantic Ocean b gins-a far from But although it is useful to divide the seas into relatively well demarc ternationally
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