Dear Andrew:
   So I am to understand that the number "7" is about as pertinent as the ancient "4" elements? Then there's the Antarctic Ocean. When does it become distinguishable from the oceans it touches? Is it not just a "cold South Pacific" frinstance? Is one in it when one sights the first penguin on an iceberg?
    Art
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> From: Andrew Grebneff <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/01/20 Tue AM 03:30:13 EST
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> Subject: Re: 7 seas
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> >Modern references list them this way:
> >
> >all oceans of world: all the oceans of the world.
> >They are the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Arctic,
> >Antarctic, and Indian Oceans.
> >----- Original Message -----
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> That list is highly incomplete! Oceans are geological structures,
> with basaltic floors (ie no contintntal crust underlying them except
> in shallow water ie continental shelves).
>
> Other oceans (size notwithstanding) are:
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> Black Sea Mediterranean
> Red Sea
> ?Caspian Sea
> Caribbean Sea
> South China Sea
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