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Huge new survey of southern ocean bathymetry published

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Southern Ocean map

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61723806

 

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Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean.

Covering 48 million sq km (185 million sq miles), this chart for the first time details a new deepest point - a depression lying 7,432m (24,383ft) down called the Factorian Deep.

 

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