A New Ocean Just Dropped

The National Geographic Society has been mapping the world’s oceans since 1915, but this year the cartographers produced a surprise: a fifth ocean! It’s the body of water surrounding Antarctica that’s been carved from the nearby

Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans by the fast-moving

Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The society is calling this new fifth sea-ster the Southern Ocean, which is certainly accurate, if a little boring.