The Southern Ocean has been official for 7 yrs.now but only a few teachers teach this. Text books don't seem to have been changed yet either....Why????
2007-03-15 03:56:02 · 3 answers · asked by Debbie S 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
They are probably leary about teaching something new as things change on an instant and declarations can be deemed inaccurate as quickly as they are approved. Case in point, planet/non-planet Pluto.
2007-03-15 04:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about "official" for only seven years. It was official enough when I sailed across it 35 years ago to Antarctica. Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans have been calling it the Southern Ocean for decades and text books in schools do the same thing but then we live on it. It's nice to see the rest of the world has caught up.
2007-03-15 09:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just took oceanography last semester and heard nothing about the southern ocean. I was taught there are technically only 3 oceans, Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian. My professor taught that the Arctic ocean isn't technically an ocean for reasons that I've forgot. He made no mention of the southern ocean. It seems to me that professors teach what has been taught to them. My professor was old school.
Interesting question.
2007-03-15 08:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by rikki l 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋