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Many of
thought the world had four
- the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. That's what we were taught in school. However, a
on the Internet will show that there is also a "Southern Ocean" around the South Pole and Antarctica. The National Geographic Society has now
accepted that this body of water around Antarctica is a
ocean. Geography teachers will
have to teach their students that the world has five oceans. Alex Tait, a
and cartographer at National Geographic, said: "We think it's really
from an educational [
], as well as from a map-labelling
, to bring attention to the Southern Ocean as a fifth ocean."