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A view of Filfla and the Mediterranean Sea. Filfla is a small, mostly barren, uninhabited islet 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) south of Malta.
A sea anemone in the Pacific Ocean, Baja California, Mexico
Satellite view of the Pacific Ocean and the main windward Hawaiian Islands
A surfer in the Pacific Ocean at the 2010 Mavericks competition, village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, northern California
Caesio teres in the South Pacific Ocean in Fiji
A panorama of Zanzibar, Tanzania, particularly the Stone Town, taken from the Indian Ocean
Icebergs broken off from glaciers in northern Baffin Bay, Cape York, Greenland
A view of the Southern Ocean from Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Princetown, Victoria, Australia
A mother sperm whale and her calf in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mauritius
Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean
A view of the South China Sea, Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
A view of Myrtos Beach and the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece
Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels

Introduction

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as oceans (in descending order by area: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic/Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean), and are themselves mostly divided into seas, gulfs and subsequent bodies of water. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere, acting as a huge reservoir of heat for Earth's energy budget, as well as for its carbon cycle and water cycle, forming the basis for climate and weather patterns worldwide. The ocean is essential to life on Earth, harbouring most of Earth's animals and protist life, originating photosynthesis and therefore Earth's atmospheric oxygen, still supplying half of it. (Full article...)

A sea is a large body of salt water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water. (Full article...)

Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean' and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. (Full article...)

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In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. It is a significant means of exporting energy from the light-rich photic zone to the aphotic zone below, which is referred to as the biological pump. Export production is the amount of organic matter produced in the ocean by primary production that is not recycled (remineralised) before it sinks into the aphotic zone. Because of the role of export production in the ocean's biological pump, it is typically measured in units of carbon (e.g. mg C m⁻² d⁻¹). The term was coined by explorer William Beebe as observed from his bathysphere. As the origin of marine snow lies in activities within the productive photic zone, the prevalence of marine snow changes with seasonal fluctuations in photosynthetic activity and ocean currents. Marine snow can be an important food source for organisms living in the aphotic zone, particularly for organisms that live very deep in the water column. (Full article...)

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Only one percent of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge is above sea level.

Elysia diomedea is one of three species of sea slug known to exhibit kleptoplasty and thus benefit from photosynthesis.

Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men who travelled the world's oceans with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish between 1587 and 1592.

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Image 1Banks of the northeast Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 2The Aethiopian Ocean depicted in a 1710 French map of Africa (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 3A Chagossian on Diego Garcia in 1971, before the British expelled the islanders. He spoke a French-based creole language and his ancestors were likely brought as slaves in the 19th century. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 4The Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage via Canadian Inland Waters. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 5The three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands: Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 6Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 7USS Vincennes at Disappointment Bay, Antarctica in early 1840 (from Southern Ocean)
Image 8Emanuel Bowen's 1780s map of the Arctic features a "Northern Ocean". (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 9Banks of the northwest Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 10Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars taking over Tahiti on 9 September 1842 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 11A map of Australia's official interpretation of the names and limits of oceans and seas around Australia (from Southern Ocean)
Image 12The bathyscaphe Trieste before her record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 23 January 1960 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 13Sunset in Monterey County, California, U.S. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 14The Kennedy Channel. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 15According to the Coastal hypothesis, modern humans spread from Africa along the northern rim of the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 16Iceberg A22A in the South Atlantic Ocean (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 17The island geography of the Pacific Ocean Basin (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 18Three polar bears approach USS Honolulu near the North Pole. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 19Typhoon Tip at global peak intensity on 12 October 1979 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 20A Ring of Fire; the Pacific is ringed by many volcanoes and oceanic trenches. This map does not show the Cascadia subduction zone along part of the west coast of North America, whose trench is completely buried in sediments. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 211937 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
Image 22Impact of El Niño and La Niña on North America (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 23The Atlantic Gyres influenced the Portuguese discoveries and trading port routes, here shown in the India Run ("Carreira da Índia"), which would be developed in subsequent years. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 24Manganese nodule (from Southern Ocean)
Image 25Density structure of the upper 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the Arctic Ocean. Profiles of temperature and salinity for the Amundsen Basin, the Canadian Basin and the Greenland Sea are sketched. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 26Pacific Ocean currents have created three islands of debris. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 27Mombasa Port on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast (from Indian Ocean)
Image 28Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 29Marine debris strewn over the beaches of the South Atlantic Inaccessible Island (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 30A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) on South Georgia (from Southern Ocean)
Image 31James Weddell's second expedition in 1823, depicting the brig Jane and the cutter Beaufroy (from Southern Ocean)
Image 32In the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic warm subtropical waters are transformed into colder subpolar and polar waters. In the Labrador Sea this water flows back to the subtropical gyre. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 33Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1702–1707 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 34Fish of the Notothenioidei suborder, such as this young icefish, are mostly restricted to the Antarctic and Subantarctic. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 35Portrait of Edmund Halley by Godfrey Kneller (before 1721) (from Southern Ocean)
Image 36Capture of Atlantic northwest cod in million tons (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 37Walruses on Arctic ice floe (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 38Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are the most southerly of Antarctic mammals. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 39Malé's population has increased from 20,000 people in 1987 to more than 220,000 people in 2020. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 40MS Explorer in Antarctica in January 1999. She sank on 23 November 2007 after hitting an iceberg. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 41An iceberg being pushed out of a shipping lane by (L to R) USS Burton Island, USS Atka, and USS Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1965 (from Southern Ocean)
Image 42"Southern Ocean" as alternative to the Aethiopian Ocean, 18th century (from Southern Ocean)
Image 43The British invasion of Isle de France on 29 November 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars (from Indian Ocean)
Image 44Maris Pacifici by Ortelius (1589). One of the first printed maps to show the Pacific Ocean (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 45Greco-Roman trade with ancient India according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 1st century CE (from Indian Ocean)
Image 46
Upwelling in the Southern Ocean
(from Southern Ocean)
Image 47Minke whale (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 48The Andaman Negritos are thought to be the first inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, having emigrated from the mainland tens of thousands of years ago. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 49Admiral von Bellingshausen (from Southern Ocean)
Image 50Famous official portrait of Captain James Cook who proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe. "He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it." (from Southern Ocean)
Image 51A bathymetric/topographic map of the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding lands. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 52The Austronesian maritime trade network was the first trade routes in the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 53Severe cracks in an ice pier in use for four seasons at McMurdo Station slowed cargo operations in 1983 and proved a safety hazard. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 54Air pollution in South Asia spread over the Bay of Bengal and beyond. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 55An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 56Sea cover in the Arctic Ocean, showing the median, 2005 and 2007 coverage (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 57Regional Working Group zones for SOOS (from Southern Ocean)
Image 58Cod fishery in Norway (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 591911 South Polar Regions exploration map (from Southern Ocean)
Image 60The International Hydrographic Organization's delineation of the "Southern Ocean" has moved steadily southward since the original 1928 edition of its Limits of Oceans and Seas. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 61Waves in the trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean – areas of converging winds that move along the same track as the prevailing wind – create instabilities in the atmosphere that may lead to the formation of hurricanes.
Image 62Distribution of the major water mass in the Arctic Ocean. The section sketches the different water masses along a vertical section from Bering Strait over the geographic North Pole to Fram Strait. As the stratification is stable, deeper water masses are denser than the layers above. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 63Agulhas Bank (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 64Area inside the black line indicates the area constituting the Pacific Ocean prior to 2002; darker blue areas are its informal current borders following the recreation of the Southern Ocean and the reinclusion of marginal seas. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 65During summer, warm continental masses draw moist air from the Indian Ocean, producing heavy rainfall. The process is reversed during winter, resulting in dry conditions. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 66Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station. Tops of thunderclouds are also visible. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 67The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 68The Arctic Ocean, with borders as delineated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), including Hudson Bay (some of which is south of 57°N latitude, off the map) and all other marginal seas. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 69Universalis Cosmographia, also known as the Waldseemüller map, dated 1507, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South America was generally considered the New World and shows the name "America" for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 70Aldabra giant tortoise from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles (from Indian Ocean)
Image 71Excavation of the Ertebølle middens in 1880 (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 72Path of the thermohaline circulation. Purple paths represent deep-water currents, while blue paths represent surface currents.
Image 73As the Gulf Stream meanders across the North Atlantic from the North American east coast to Western Europe its temperature drops by 20 °C (36 °F).
Image 74Bahama Banks (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 75Seas that are parts of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 76False color map of ocean depth in the Atlantic basin (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 771928 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
Image 78Marine debris on a Hawaiian coast in 2008 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 79A female warty squid (Moroteuthis ingens) (from Southern Ocean)
Image 80Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, U.S. in 2020 (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 81The Arctic region; of note, the region's southerly border on this map is depicted by a red isotherm, with all territory to the north having an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F) in July. (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 82On the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean temporary logistic stations may be installed. Here, a Twin Otter is refueled on the pack ice at 86°N, 76°43‘W. on April 16, 1990 during a flight to the North Pole (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 83The 1564 Typus Orbis Terrarum, a map by Abraham Ortelius, showed the imagined link between the proposed continent of Antarctica and South America. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 84A copepod (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 85For most of the 16th century, the Portuguese dominated the Indian Ocean trade. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 86Thule archaeological site (from Arctic Ocean)
Image 87Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1754. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 88Major ocean trade routes in the world include the northern Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 89"Terres Australes" [sic] label without any charted landmass (from Southern Ocean)
Image 90Model of a Fijian drua, an example of an Austronesian vessel with a double-canoe (catamaran) hull and a crab claw sail (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 91Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are a keystone species of the food web. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 92Frank Hurley: As time wore on it became more and more evident that the ship was doomed (Endurance trapped in pack ice), National Library of Australia. (from Southern Ocean)
Image 93Coral reefs of the Maldives (from Indian Ocean)
Image 94Location of the Southern Ocean gyres (from Southern Ocean)
Image 95An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) map of the Pacific (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 96Map showing the migration of the Austronesian peoples (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 97A stratovolcano in Ulawun on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 98Madagascar's elephant bird, Mauritius's dodo bird and ostrich (from left to right) (from Indian Ocean)
Image 99Continents and islands of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 100A general delineation of the Antarctic Convergence, sometimes used by scientists as the demarcation of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Image 101Embarked and disembarked slaves in the Atlantic slave trade 1525–1863 (first and last slave voyages) (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 102The economically important Silk Road was blocked from Europe by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery. (from Indian Ocean)
Image 103Made in 1529, the Diogo Ribeiro map was the first to show the Pacific at about its proper size (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 104In 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Suga declined to drink the bottle of Fukushima's treated radioactive water that he was holding, which would otherwise be discharged to the Pacific. (from Pacific Ocean)
Image 105Based on the medieval Íslendingasögur sagas, including the Grœnlendinga saga, this interpretative map of the "Norse World" shows that Norse knowledge of the Americas and the Atlantic remained limited. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Image 106The Antarctic Ocean, as delineated by the draft 4th edition of the International Hydrographic Organization's Limits of Oceans and Seas (2002) (from Southern Ocean)

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