the Southern Ocean

Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.

They stared at the Southern Ocean for hours, perhaps days, until making the ultimate instinctual leap of faith: They dove in.

The Southern Ocean is one of the world's biggest reservoirs of carbon, known as a carbon sink.

Many were worried that Joyon would end up exhausted and IDEC would simply flip over as she ran out of control in the Southern Ocean.

Saving endangered baleen whales could boost the carbon storage capacity of the Southern Ocean, suggests a new study of whale faeces.

Pleasure boats cruise languidly around the sandbanks that dot the narrow channel leading to the Southern Ocean.

New Zealand has already issued coastal navigation warnings for the area in the Southern Ocean where the icebergs have been seen.

An hour later that hollowness, like the southern ocean's coldness, persisted.

With the swells coming from the Southern Ocean, Bali sees consistent waves up to 12 ft high, from April to November.

Gray areas over Africa and parts of the Southern Ocean are places where temperatures were not recorded.

Australia has protested to Japan after a vessel from its whaling fleet entered Australia's exclusive economic zone in the Southern Ocean.

Animals along the coast of the Southern Ocean don't mind the cold weather, and thrive in Antarctica's seas.

In the foreground are scenes visible over a rocky coastline toward the Southern Ocean.

From the bottom of Southeast Asia to the Southern Ocean, there's a lot of space and not many people, but WA is far from empty.

On Nov. 23, 2007, the MS Explorer struck submerged ice, believed to be part of an iceberg, and sank in the Southern Ocean.

Australia has made no secret of its distaste and opposition to Japan's annual whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

Japanese whaling fleets depart for annual whaling hunts in the Southern Ocean in mid-November citing scientific research purposes.

Environment Minister Peter Garrettpledged, before this election, to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The transfer of the two campaigners Thursday has ended a tense standoff in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

Spinning down to someplace a little bit cooler than here right now, the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean.

Japan had planned to kill 50 humpbacks this year out of a total 1, 000 whales during its hunt in the Southern Ocean.

The oceans in the world are the Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Southern ocean.

Those species include blue whales in the Southern Ocean, whose numbers have been reduced by more than 99 percent.

The Southern Ocean, as some call the seas that encircle Antarctica, has, on average, the strongest winds on Earth.

This is a cosmopolitan species with a distribution ranging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific.

Australia and New Zealand have condemned Japan's decision to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Happy Feet will be released into the Southern Ocean, complete with GPS tracking device.

When it moves itself in the sea, it is preparing to start for the southern ocean, which is the Celestial Lake.

We'll stay down there in the Southern Ocean, and if they return next season, we'll be there to escort them northward.

Japanese fleets have been hunting whales in the Southern Ocean for severalyears.

because 1 New Zealand belong to temperate climates, and is located in the southern ocean.

And this will ultimately increase the amount of CO2 that the Southern Ocean can sequester.

The Japanese fleet sails to the Southern Ocean in the autumn each year, returning the following Spring.

The Emperor penguin will be released near Campbell Island, in the Southern Ocean.

In the Southern Ocean, iron is indeed often the limiting nutrient.

That would make some places, such as the Southern Ocean, uninhabitable for corals.

"We've been down here in the Southern Ocean for seven years and we've never injured anybody, " Mr. Watson said.

In 2003, the Australian navy chased the Uruguayan-flagged Viarsa 1 trawler for 21 days across the Southern ocean.

The Southern Ocean at large will be rainy.

This is significant because the Southern Ocean accounts for 15 percent of the global carbon sink, Le Quere said.

There is a new iceberg in the Southern Ocean, and it's big: 50 miles long by 20 miles wide.

The research ship Tangaroa will take "Happy Feet" to his normal feeding zone in the Southern Ocean

Study on distribution and benthic fluxes of nutrients in sediment interstitial water of the Southern Ocean

What drives heat transport in the Atlantic: Sensitivity to mechanical energy supply and buoyancy forcing in the Southern Ocean

Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming

Measurements of air-sea gas exchange at high wind speeds in the Southern Ocean: Implications for global parameterizations

Accumulation status of persistent organochlorines in albatrosses from the North Pacific and the Southern Ocean

Short-term climate response to a freshwater pulse in the Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean as the Flywheel of the Oceanic Conveyor Belt

In recent years, stronger winds blowing over the Southern Ocean

Biogenic silica in surficial sediments of Prydz Bay of the Southern Ocean

Study of Carbon Cycling in the Southern Ocean: A Review

Direct observations of eddy turbulence at a ridge in the Southern Ocean

Ocean, sea-ice, atmosphere oscillations in the Southern Ocean as simulated by the SINTEX coupled model

Long Rossby Wave Basin Modes for the Southern Ocean Under the Planetary Geostrophic Framework

Changes of the oceanic CO sink in the Eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

Dominant propagating signals in sea level anomalies in the Southern Ocean

Crabs are invading the shallow waters of the Southern Ocean

Regional Committee for the Southern Ocean;

Sea ice motion in Response to surface wind and ocean current in the southern ocean

AAFI; Programme Group for the Southern Ocean;

Thickness diffusivity in the Southern Ocean

A high resolution transect of dissolved barium in the Southern Ocean

Air-sea gas transfer in the Southern Ocean