Who owns the oceans?
Who owns the world’s oceans? It’s a legitimate question. We divvy up Earth‘s terrain through war, conquest and colonization. We use rivers, mountains and entire continents to establish geographic boundaries on land. The oceans have no apparent surface features — just a flat, vast, briny expanse. They’re also all connected; the world’s five oceans are technically one single ocean that covers 71 percent of the planet [source: NOAA].
