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Many consider the Southern Ocean to be a not an ocean at all as it is defined as the waters around Antarctica, which are more naturally viewed as parts of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. This would be the equivalent of saying that the waters around Norht America were the North American Ocean.
