The findings that Antarctic Ocean which has been absorbing increasing levels of carbon dioxide over the past decade, may have ocean’s carbon sink might have begun to “saturate”. seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and releases it back later. accounts for 40 per cent of the global oceanic uptake of that man-made carbon dioxide.
About Antarctic Ocean
- Other Names: Southern Ocean, Austral Ocean.
- it is regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions.
- A baby, named Emilio Marcos de Palma, was born near Hope Bay on 7 January 1978, becoming the first baby born on the continent..
- Depth: depths of between 4,000 and 5,000 m (13,000 and 16,000 ft).
- contains 90 percent of all of the ice on the planet.
- It is the Coldest Ocean.
Some G.K. Related Question:
Which was the first cruise to sank in the Antarctic Ocean?
Who was the first person to sail single-handed to Antarctica in a 10-metre steel sloop Ice Bird?
