• Calculations using the data available on Thursday afternoon suggested a splash down in the Southern Ocean.

    BBC: Nasa refines satellite crash time

  • The Southern Ocean Sanctuary was set aside in 1994 as an area where commercial whaling is prohibited.

    CNN: Japan attempts to abolish whale sanctuary

  • In 2007 she published a study arguing that the uptake of carbon in the Southern Ocean had levelled out.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • In 2002 the Australian navy apprehended two long-liners fishing for toothfish (sea bass) without licenses in the Southern Ocean.

    FORBES: International

  • Since then they have been discovered at about 200 sites around the world including the Southern Ocean and the Atlantic.

    BBC: Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team

  • For weeks, he drifted around off the coast of Brazil, pretending over the radio he had entered the southern ocean.

    ECONOMIST: The hubris of racers today

  • Getting there by boat also involves a challenging sail across the Southern Ocean, from bases like Hobart, Australia, and isolated Punta Arenas, Chile.

    BBC: Experiences that make time stand still

  • From there, it is on to the Southern Hemisphere - Cape Town, South Africa - before the gruelling Southern Ocean.

    BBC: Richards heads round globe

  • The total catch of the toothfish, known as the "white gold" of the Southern Ocean, is double the level believed previously.

    BBC: Toothfish at risk from illegal catches

  • The Institute for Cetacean Research harvests whales within the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, fifty million square kilometres designated a protected area by the I.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • His one-and-a-half revolutions of the stormy southern ocean, before at last dropping anchor in Tahiti, is one of the great feats of singlehanded sailing.

    ECONOMIST: The hubris of racers today

  • We advise that you leave the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary immediately.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • Happy Feet was released from the research vessel Tangaroa on 4 September into the Southern Ocean about 50 miles (80km) north of the remote Campbell Island.

    BBC: Concern mounts for 'missing' penguin Happy Feet

  • In 1997 Frenchman Thierry Dubois and Briton Tony Bullimore were both rescued by the Australian navy after running into trouble in the Southern Ocean during the race.

    BBC: Orion cruise liner

  • But their 90-foot catamaran was dismasted in the Southern Ocean.

    BBC: Richards heads round globe

  • In anticipation of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Grenada next month, Japan has prepared a motion to abolish a whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean.

    CNN: Japan attempts to abolish whale sanctuary

  • The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) in the Southern Ocean south-east of New Zealand.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The whales, including mothers and their newborns, can also be spotted as they make the long trip back to the icy waters of the Southern Ocean between September and November.

    BBC: Australia��s humpback highway

  • Mr Goss became a global hero when he turned back in a southern ocean hurricane to rescue fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli in the 1996-97 Vende Globe round the world single-handed race.

    BBC: Damaged yacht 'can still win'

  • But, even a tiny warming of the huge Southern Ocean must increase the amount of moisture in the air around Antarctica which can only result in more clouds and snow over the continent.

    FORBES: Is Global Warming A Bipolar Disorder?

  • In one room James Caird, the show's star exhibit, floats like a little white iceberg in a sea of video screens showing towering computer-generated breakers, in imitation of the heaving surface of the Southern Ocean.

    ECONOMIST: Antarctic exploration

  • Using a satellite phone, he called officials in New Zealand and Australia both countries claim sovereignty over parts of the Southern Ocean and are staunchly against whaling and requested that a naval vessel take the Japanese ship into custody.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.

    FORBES: The Real Deal... Mike Horn Takes Young Explorers to the Far Corners of the Planet

  • The former Royal Marine won international fame in 1997 when he was rescued after surviving on "sheer determination, a little water and a little chocolate" for five days in the upturned hull of his boat in the Southern Ocean during the Vendee Globe race.

    BBC: SPORT | Other Sport... | Sailing | Bullimore eyes MacArthur record

  • Resort pioneer James Baillie opened Southern Ocean Lodge four years ago offering dramatic but low impact on the environment architecture and equally dramatic views of the surrounding cliffs and waves crashing ashore. (Riding those waves while I was there assorted dolphins.) All rooms face those ocean views, which become almost mesmerizing in winter, with storms rolling in as you sit by the living room fireplace staring out.

    FORBES: Australia Ups Its Luxury Level With Posh Hotels And Nature Retreats

  • Also on the list: the abundant Chilean jack mackerel in the southern Pacific Ocean, for human consumption in Africa, and Antarctic krill, for fish oil and fishmeal.

    FORBES: Blue Waters Gray Areas

  • Song, Richards and colleagues studied waves generated by small earthquakes in the southern Atlantic Ocean that passed through the core to a seismograph in Alaska where they were measured.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth's core runs ahead of crust

  • Recently a South African education sailing ship, Lady Amber, has been enlisted to deploy the Argo floats in parts of the Southern Indian Ocean which are otherwise seldom visited by research or cargo vessels.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • Two southern stingrays were born in a tropical ocean display at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Lake Powell is huge -- 186 miles long, with 1, 960 miles of shoreline (more than the Pacific Ocean coastline from northern Washington to southern California).

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

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