Closed Captions (CC):
you may have heard the classic line to

sail the seven seas and as romantic as

it might sound you should probably know

it's not a very accurate saying a

because the Seas the Fraser first to our

oceans and B there aren't seven oceans

there's five the Arctic the Atlantic the

Indian the Pacific and the Southern

Ocean all one if you feel all the oceans

belong as one big ocean which some

people do and unsurprisingly call it the

wild ocean that's not a very interesting

name but I guess it makes perfect sense

that you all do shion's as one big ocean

unlike islands and continents that

aren't clear-cut beginnings and ends for

them so how do we decide when one ocean

ends and another begins well there

doesn't seem to be one definitive reason

as to why they have been divided the way

they have like a lot of country borders

they're man-made divisions using the

opened crust and the continents to help

divide this one huge ocean but the other

issue with that saying is that it calls

the oceans seas and water turn ocean and

sea have become fairly interchangeable

there is a difference between the two

what oceans are the large of the two

seas a part of oceans specifically the

part of the ocean where they meet the

land and sea is tend to be surrounded by

land in example the Irish Sea which is

part of the Atlantic Ocean and sits

between the land masses of Ireland and

Great Britain with the Isle of Man

tucked within it and in regards to the

7c saying trust me there are more than

seven seas but anyway this is named

explain not ocean explain there is

however a cool small channel called the

abyss I stumbled across that doesn't

make fun educational videos all about

the ocean so you should check them out

help us more crater and what not we are

here how to talk about how the five

oceans got their names and you know what

three of the five oceans don't have the

most exciting names of course the word

ocean is in the name of all the Earth's

oceans so let's just cover it now as

opposed to explain every time the word

ocean itself has earliest-known roots in

the Greek Okeanos which was believed to

be the great freshwater stream that

encircled the entire disk earth the

Indian Ocean is named that simply

because of its location around the

Indian subcontinent

named after the country of India so how

did India Gates name yes I am speaking a

country name explained into this video

it's believed the name India is a

corruption of the word Sindhu which was

supposedly the Sanskrit word for sea and

another name for the Indus River the

river that India is named after so yes

the Indian Ocean is an ocean named after

a subcontinent which is named after a

country which is named after a river

named section the southern ocean of

course too doesn't have the most

thrilling name is the ocean in the south

or the word south are coming from the

proto-germanic son fast

possibly literally meaning the son side

yet the Southern Ocean has a couple

other names it is also known as the

Antarctic Ocean and the Austral ocean

Austral comes from the Latin word for

South Oster and the name the Antarctic

Ocean comes from the fact that the

oceans around Antarctica Antarctica

comes from the Greek word for opposite

the Arctic with Arctic coming from the

Greek word meaning near the bare

northern this is referred to one of the

two of bear-baiting northern

constellations I'm getting some serious

deja vu right now but with explaining

the etymology of antarctica and arctic

i've also explained where the arctic

ocean name comes from you guys totally

didn't realize or sneaking another ocean

etymology in there did you

so while there are interesting stories

in those names none of those free oceans

have wholly unique names and are merely

named after where they are this of

course changes however with the Atlantic

and Pacific oceans the name of the

Atlantic Ocean has its origins in

ancient Greek mythology the oldest known

mention of Atlantic is in the histories

of Herodotus from around 450 BC however

it was Atlantis he wrote not Atlantic

Atlantis comes from the name of the

Greek Titan Atlas with Atlantis meaning

at the island of Atlas and in some

context the Sea of atlas yet the actual

ocean we know or hadn't been recorded

yet Atlantis had only existed in mists

of the homeland to an advanced

civilization that sank beneath the ocean

first recorded in the writings of Plato

Plato and Homer however did allude to

the sea of Atlas as a mythical sea

beyond the pillars of Gibraltar but was

never confirmed to exist until the

Romans served upon it as a transport

route to Britain the name Atlantic Ocean

became more formally used by the Middle

Ages its name being a relic of Asian

past when people search for the lost

continent of Atlantis finally we have

earth's largest ocean the pacific ocean

man mattes though doodling justice

anyway in 1519 spain wanted to find a

western route to the Spice Islands of a

South America and enlisted Portuguese

navigator Ferdinand de Magellan to find

this route after tackling dangerous

waters Ferdinand and his feats came to

unfamiliar calm waters he called these

waters specific meaning peaceful which

would later become the name we there as

today the Pacific Ocean weather an

oceans name it comes from Greek

mythology it's peaceful waters or just

where it is in the world you can

guarantee that what in them will be

amazing and pretty terrifying hey there

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