>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 -----

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:

Black Sea Mediterranean
Red Sea
?Caspian Sea
Caribbean Sea
South China Sea
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
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