Below is a table with the seas of the so-called Southern Ocean, which includes their names, area (in thousands of square kilometers), average and greatest depth (in meters), as well as the main ocean of which they are part.
number | Name of the sea | Average depth, m | Maximum depth, m | main ocean | |
1 | The Amundsen Sea | 98 | 286 | 585 | Quiet |
2 | Bellingshausen’s Sea | 487 | 2650 | 4470 | Quiet |
3 | Davis Sea | 21 | 571 | 1369 | Indian |
4 | The sea of Durville | 315 | 500 | 3610 | Quiet |
5 | Sea of Astronauts | 699 | 1900 | 4798 | Indian |
6 | The sea of Lazarev | 335 | 3000 | 4500 | Atlantic |
7 | Mawson’s Sea | 333 | 350 | 1000 | Indian |
8 | Sea of Rieser-Larsen | 1138,3 | 1800 | 3657 | Indian |
9 | Ross Sea | 439 | 677 | 2972 | Quiet |
10 | The sea of Scotia | 1300 | 3096 | 6022 | Atlantic |
11 | Sea of the Commonwealth | 258 | 500 | 3000 | Indian |
12 | The Somov Sea | 1150 | 1400 | 3000 | Quiet |
13 | The Weddell Sea | 2920 | 3000 | 6820 | Atlantic |
South ocean – conditional “fifth ocean”; is a collection of the southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans that surround the mainland.