Why did they name it ocean?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

The word comes from Greek 'Okeanos' when little information was known about the Earth. Okeanos was a great river surrounding the disk of the Earth when only the land masses of Europe and parts of Asia were known

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