What ocean is directly south of victoria?

[Seeds]

Ok i cant figure this out and for once google does not have an easy answer.

Is it the southern ocean? This was my first guess but i see maps online of the southern ocean and its only a very small area around antartica touching no other land form. This is not what i remember being taught at school.

If its not the southern ocean then is it one of the pacific or indian oceans? Where does the pacific end and the indian start exactly?

Or is the bass strait its own little ocean thats seperate from all the other oceans? This doesnt feel right. I feel the bass strait should be a small subset area of a much larger ocean. Its not the bass ocean now is it. They dont name oceans after people and if they did surely one of those people would not be Bass.

So anyone know the answer to this? It has me truly stumped.

 

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Not sure about the Southern Ocean. Named after Danny Southern?

 

[katana]

the body of water between vic and tas is bass strait, the surrounding ocean is the southern ocean.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

the body of water between vic and tas is bass strait, the surrounding ocean is the southern ocean.

Cape otway lighthouse marks the actual boundary of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean.

 

[Seeds]

the body of water between vic and tas is bass strait, the surrounding ocean is the southern ocean.

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

 

[Seeds]

Cape otway lighthouse marks the actual boundary of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean.

See this map says southern ocean is well well below australia. So even if the bass strait somehow gets to avoid being part of an ocean. Its not the southern ocean its touching at otway lighthouse. Its one of the pacific or indian. But which one?

 

[Sqotty from office works]

See this map says southern ocean is well well below australia. So even if the bass strait somehow gets to avoid being part of an ocean. Its not the southern ocean its touching at otway lighthouse. Its one of the pacific or indian. But which one?

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Got no idea what you're on about.
I'm just giving you facts

 

[Sinjin Smith]

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

Isn't it a terminology discussion? Some bodies are called seas, lakes, straits etc. Christ some damns are larger than lakes.

 

[Seeds]

Got no idea what you're on about.
I'm just giving you facts

but this map disputes your facts and say they arent correct as southern ocean doesnt go that far north.

 

[katana]

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

a strait exists between two of what is labelled an ocean. no, not all water is an ocean. is my bathtub an ocean? its water.

 

[rocker_oz33]

On the west side of Tassie...roring 40s is from the Indian ocean I believe..
Bass straight .
Southern ocean .

 

[rocker_oz33]

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

Red sea.
Dead sea ..

Moses parted the seas ...

 

[rocker_oz33]

Isn't it a terminology discussion? Some bodies are called seas, lakes, straits etc. Christ some damns are larger than lakes.

Some are called Tarns ...silly name ..

 

[Seeds]

Red sea.
Dead sea ..

Moses parted the seas ...

Dead sea is a giant lake.

I thought red sea was part of the indian ocean.

But i may be wrong.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Dead sea is a giant lake.

I thought red sea was part of the indian ocean.

But i may be wrong.

I'm all at Sea..

 

[Ocha905]

According to the IILSS - The South Pacific -

https://iilss.net/border-of-seas-and-oceans-in-the-earth/

According to Wikipedia - The Indian Ocean -



According to ChatGPT it's neither -

"Bass Strait is not directly part of either the Indian or Pacific Ocean, but it serves as a natural passage between them. On one side, it connects to the Great Australian Bight, which is part of the Indian Ocean, and on the other, it opens into the Tasman Sea, which is part of the Pacific Ocean.

So, it can be seen as a boundary area between these two oceans, but it is not definitively part of either."


So you've picked up on a rare geographical grey area Seeds . Anecdotally, having grown up in Victoria, I've never heard of it referred to as part of either ocean and only as Bass Strait.

 

[emuboy]

I always thought it was Perth and Darwin (Indian Ocean), Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart (Southern Ocean) and Sydney and Brisbane (Pacific Ocean). And putting on my Captain Obvious hat, Canberra does not have an ocean.

 

[ash_1050]

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

This may help:

 

[Seeds]

According to the IILSS - The South Pacific -

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https://iilss.net/border-of-seas-and-oceans-in-the-earth/

According to Wikipedia - The Indian Ocean -

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According to ChatGPT it's neither -

"Bass Strait is not directly part of either the Indian or Pacific Ocean, but it serves as a natural passage between them. On one side, it connects to the Great Australian Bight, which is part of the Indian Ocean, and on the other, it opens into the Tasman Sea, which is part of the Pacific Ocean.

So, it can be seen as a boundary area between these two oceans, but it is not definitively part of either."


So you've picked up on a rare geographical grey area Seeds . Anecdotally, having grown up in Victoria, I've never heard of it referred to as part of either ocean and only as Bass Strait.

There should not be geographical grey areas in the 21st century. Yet here we are. Everyone In australia thinks its the Southern ocean even though none of the international ocean maps think the southern ocean gets anywhere near tasmania let alone victoria.

 

[Seeds]

I always thought it was Perth and Darwin (Indian Ocean), Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart (Southern Ocean) and Sydney and Brisbane (Pacific Ocean). And putting on my Captain Obvious hat, Canberra does not have an ocean.

The international ocean maps disagree with the southern ocean part.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

There should not be geographical grey areas in the 21st century. Yet here we are. Everyone In australia thinks its the Southern ocean even though none of the international ocean maps think the southern ocean gets anywhere near tasmania let alone victoria.

There is no agreement on a definition of continents, much less the difference between boundaries of oceans or what defines an ocean from the seas.

 

[Ocha905]

There should not be geographical grey areas in the 21st century. Yet here we are. Everyone In australia thinks its the Southern ocean even though none of the international ocean maps think the southern ocean gets anywhere near tasmania let alone victoria.

Yeah it's definitely not part of the Southern Ocean. We can rule that out.

 

[Seeds]

There is no agreement on a definition of continents, much less the difference between boundaries of oceans or what defines an ocean from the seas.

The majority of a comtinent is agreed upon by coastlines and the borderlines of countries are agreed up within a matter of metres. The whole border of the southern ocean seems to be disputed and not simply by a matter of kms but 500 plus kms.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Bass straight .
Tasman sea.
Southern ocean.

 

[HairyO]

So bass strait is not an ocean? But arent all waters ocean?

Technically there is only one ocean. We just have different names for different bits of the ocean.