Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura
It’s hard to know where one ocean starts and the next one begins. Though on maps we’re happy to chop up our maritime world into parcels, the water doesn’t really work that way, despite the occasional circulation of miscaptioned photographs that purport to show the dramatic meeting of two oceans. In fact, so far as the NOAA is concerned, there’s only one ocean, with four, or possibly five, ocean basins.
When geographers talk about what distinguishes one ocean from another, however, they’re interested in their geographical features and physical properties, such as salinity or temperature.
What that means, too, is that ocean “boundaries” may shift with the features or properties of a given undersea area.This is exactly what seems to be taking place in a region of…
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