New geographies . down from the Arctic into the Atlantic there are so many that they aredangerous to vessels sailing between ISTorthAmerica and Europe. Figure 129 shows the AntarcikOcean, which surrounds the south pole. As you see, there The Antarctic is a great mass of land o^^^^around that pole. It is large enoughto be called a continent; but, since no tAClFlC oh^ --. H. t^X SOUTH POLE Fig. 127. — The Indian Ocean and the western part ofthe Pacific Ocean. and is almost shut in by Eurasia andNorth America (Fig. 118). Noticethat it is connected with the PacificOcean by only a v
New geographies . down from the Arctic into the Atlantic there are so many that they aredangerous to vessels sailing between ISTorthAmerica and Europe. Figure 129 shows the AntarcikOcean, which surrounds the south pole. As you see, there The Antarctic is a great mass of land o^^^^around that pole. It is large enoughto be called a continent; but, since no tAClFlC oh^ --. H. t^X SOUTH POLE Fig. 127. — The Indian Ocean and the western part ofthe Pacific Ocean. and is almost shut in by Eurasia andNorth America (Fig. 118). Noticethat it is connected with the PacificOcean by only a very narrow bodyof water, or strait, called Bering Strait(Fig. 106). North America and Asiacome close together at that point. The Arctic Ocean has a freer connectionwith the Atlantic on the east. Huge massesof ice, called icebergs (Fig. 128), often float ^ \ SOTJTH-POLE i ;. J •SStRLK VNTARCTIC .. rnNENT/ .
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