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How many oceans are there?
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- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Although the oceans of the earth are all connected and truly one "World Ocean," most often the world is divided into four major "oceans" - the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.
Some consider there to be five oceans - the fifth being an ocean surrounding Antarctica called the Antarctic Ocean or Southern Ocean.
Source(s): There are 5 oceans in the world. In 2000, scientists decided that a certain body of water bordering Antarctica should be considered as an ocean. They called it the Southern Ocean. Currently, there is the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. - ?Lv 41 decade ago
5- Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern
But there are also seas and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans can be divided between north and south.
Source(s): the globe next to my desk - Anonymous1 decade ago
Who knows, they keep changing it.
