By Bill Galluccio
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National Geographic announced that there is a new ocean joining the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. The new Southern Ocean begins at the coast of Antarctica and extends north to 60 degrees south latitude, which is just above the tip of South America.
The new ocean excludes the Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea and is now the second smallest, behind the Arctic Ocean.
It is the first time in over a century that the Oceanic maps have been updated. National Geographic, which began making ocean maps in 1915, explained that scientists have considered that body of water an ocean for years.