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There is only one ocean but geographers like to name large sections of it for ease of reference. How would they know where the Pacific ends and the Atlantyic begins. We now have an extra ocean called?
Marsviking
What I meant was that the Arctic Ocean used to be part fo the Atlantic, and the Southern Ocean was once called the Antarctic. Why the Indian ocean is called that, I wouldn't know--just because India sits on the top?
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