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The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters.The definition and number of oceans can vary depending on the adopted criteria. The principal divisions (in descending order of area) of the five oceans are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean.
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
The presence of the Drake Passageway allows the three main ocean basins (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) to be connected via the Antarctic Circumpolar current (ACC), the strongest oceanic current, with an estimated transport of 100–150 Sv (Sverdrups, million m 3 /s). This flow is the only large-scale exchange occurring between the global oceans ...
1981–1982 – First Indian Expedition to Antarctica – led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim; 1982 – Falkland Islands War; 1982–1983 – First Brazilian Expedition to Antarctica – 1982–1983 – Second Indian Expedition to Antarctica – led by V. K. Raina; 1982–1984 – 28th Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by N. Kornilov, A. Artemyev
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins. (from Southern Ocean ) Image 24 The Atlantic Gyres influenced the Portuguese discoveries and trading port routes, here shown in the India Run (" Carreira da Índia "), which would be developed in ...
The origin of the Indian missions to the Antarctic are traced to the joint Indian Space Research Organisation – Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia agreements, which led to Indians, such as Dr. Paramjit Singh Sehra, joining the 17th Soviet Antarctic expedition of 1971–1973.