As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

Some authorities show it extending south to Antarctica, while others show it bounded at the 60 ° parallel by the Southern Ocean.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

See Ocean fisheries # Southern Ocean.

The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, the largest ocean current.

The Circumpolar Current is driven by the strong westerly winds which are found in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean.

But in the Southern Ocean, the momentum imparted to the surface waters cannot be offset in this way.

Some theories connect these flows directly, implying that there is significant upwelling of dense deep waters within the Southern Ocean, transformation of these waters into light surface waters, and a transformation of waters in the opposite direction to the north.

Category: Geography of the Southern Ocean

* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.

The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters, and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence.

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

* Southern Ocean

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

The Southern Methodist University band will wear a different combination of jackets, vests, ties, shirts, and pants for each half ( changing before halftime ) of each game and no clothing / uniform combinations are repeated during the marching season.

The company was formed on February 16, 1852, but did not build track from Swanson's Landing at Caddo Lake to Marshall, Texas, until after changing its name to " Southern Pacific " on August 16, 1856.

He also entrusted the matters of changing Xianbei ceremonies and music to Han ceremonies to the official Wang Su ( 王肅 ), who had only recently defected from Southern Qi.

Over the years the CNE has changed extensively to meet the needs of the growing and changing demographics of Toronto and Southern Ontario.

A unit of Special Constabulary was travelling by train to Belfast, but was stopped by an IRA unit at Clones, in Southern Ireland, while they were changing trains.

Their biggest single loss of life came at Clones in February 1922, when a patrol, changing trains in Southern territory, refused to surrender to the local IRA garrison and took four dead and eight wounded in a firefight.

With the accreditation, Oregon Governor Charles A. Sprague signed into law the bill changing the institution's name to Southern Oregon College of Education.

The current incarnation of the league was formed in 1966 as the Kent Premier League ( changing to the current title in 1968 ), and in its early years many of its members were reserve sides of Southern League teams.

Coming out of Grant's concerns with the changing " stock " of American immigration of the early 20th century ( characterized by increased numbers of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, as opposed to Western and Northern Europe ), Passing of the Great Race was a " racial " interpretation of contemporary anthropology and history, stating race as the basic motor of civilization.

The Southern political landscape was changing rapidly at that time, and Dunn rose to the position of chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party.

* 1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on the changing politics of Southern Africa

In January 2006, Central GTS / BKN was renamed Southern Cross GTS / BKN, changing its logo to the same one currently used by Southern Cross Tasmania and Southern Cross Darwin.

* In the United States, the industrial north's victory over the Southern planter elite in the Civil War cemented the U. S. path to modernity through liberal democracy, but only after southern planters " acquired a tincture " of urban business-essentially changing their attitudes towards capitalist accumulation.

This was an impetus for others around the country to do the same, changing the make-up of USA Rugby, which now has seven territories ( Pacific, Southern California, West, Midwest, South, Northeastern, and Mid-Atlantic ).

It was renamed ' Redhill Junction ', eventually changing its name to ' Redhill ' in July 1929 when it was under Southern Railway ownership

Less than two years later, the team announced it was changing its name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, an attempt to market the team as being from Southern California — Major League Baseball's second-largest media market — rather than just Orange County.

The Midland Land Damage Company tried again in 1862, changing its name to the Southern Midland Railroad in 1863 without success.

The Southern dialects changed // to / t / before /* k / ( later changing * tk to / hk / in Mazatlán and simplifying to / k / in Jalapa ), whereas the Northern dialects changed // to // before /*/ a.

1974 saw the BP series changing sponsor to John Player, and the Yellow Pages series becoming backed by John Webb's MCD organisation and Southern Organs ; in practice most top drivers competed in both series and there were no date clashes.

Also on this Southern side of the pitch is a disused cricket pavilion which also contains several more changing rooms and showers.

Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

Further south still is the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front ( SACCF ), which is determined as the southernmost extent of Circumpolar Deep Water ( temperature of about 2 ° C at 400m ).

God commands that she be named Lo-ruhamah ; Unloved, or, Pity or Pitied On to show Israel that, although God will still have pity on the Southern Kingdom, God will no longer have pity on the Northern Kingdom ; its destruction is imminent.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

Problems in Southern Italy still include widespread political corruption, pervading organized crime and very high unemployment rates.

Additionally, owing to its Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near Charlotte.

Labour won extra seats in Scotland, Wales and Northern England, but lost ground particularly in Southern England and London, where the Tories still dominated.

After the invasion of the formerly Germanic territories ( the part largely corresponding to GDR ) by the Sorbs ’ Slavic ancestors in the 5th and 6th centuries, the Sorbian language ( or its predecessors ) has been in use in much of ( later ) East Germany ’ s Southern half for several centuries, and has still its stronghold in ( Upper and Lower ) Lusatia where it enjoys national protection and fostering until today.

Foods such as raccoon, squirrel, opossum, turtle, and rabbit were, until the 1950s, very common fare among the then still predominantly rural and Southern African-American population.

The Middle and Southern Urals were still largely unavailable and unknown to the Russian or Western European geographers.

How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

Soon after the start of the Mexican War, when the extent of the territories to be acquired was still unclear, the question of whether to allow slavery in those territories polarized the Northern and Southern United States in the most bitter sectional conflict up to this time.

Although none of the actual set remains, the spectacular views of Mt Sunday sitting all alone in an expansive river plain surrounded by the Southern Alps still attracts hundreds of visitors each year.

Likewise, the northwest motion of the Pacific Plate creates significant compressional forces where the North American Plate stands in its way, creating the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, and to a lesser, but still significant, extent the Santa Cruz Mountains, site of the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.

In particular the latter is still sometimes explicitly proposed as a primitive loon as they both were initially, but other authors consider Neogaeornis a hesperornithiform ; note however that neither Gaviiformes nor Hesperornithiformes are known from the Southern Hemisphere or anywhere near it.

As 126 however had indicated that they were against because of the ( by them still considered too limited ) freedom of religion, which was mandatory under the Treaty of Vienna that ordered the union of the Northern and the Southern Netherlands, their votes and those of the men having refused to vote, were added to the minority, and by this infamous " Hollandic Arithmetic " William felt justified to proclaim the new kingdom.

The film contains a ( then rare ) positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and was still illegal in 17 states, mostly Southern states, up until June 12 of the year of the film's release, when anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia.

While other major singings still survive, The Big Singing, begun in 1884, is the only singing in the world to use the William Walker Southern Harmony system of shape-note singing.