{"id":123656,"date":"2021-06-10T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/national-geographic-adds-5th-ocean-to-world-map"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:23:05","slug":"national-geographic-adds-5th-ocean-to-world-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/national-geographic-adds-5th-ocean-to-world-map","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic adds 5th ocean to world map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/national-geographic-adds-5th-ocean-to-world-map.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is officially recognizing the body of water surrounding the Antarctic as the Earth\u2019s fifth ocean: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/theres-a-new-ocean-now-can-you-name-all-five-southern-ocean\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The change marks the first time in over a century that the organization has redrawn the world\u2019s oceanic maps, which have historically only included four: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,\u201d National Geographic Society geographer Alex Tait told the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is officially recognizing the body of water surrounding the Antarctic as the Earth\u2019s fifth ocean: the Southern Ocean. The change marks the first time in over a century that the organization has redrawn the world\u2019s oceanic maps, which have historically only included four: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}