How Did The Oceans Get Their Names?
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Why Are The Oceans Divided The Way They Are?: www.quora.com/...
What’s The Difference Between the Ocean & The Sea?: www.geolounge....
Okeanos: www.theoi.com/K...
Etymology of the Name India: www.ancient.eu/...
The Origins Of The Names Of The Continents: www.todayifound...
The Origins of the Name Atlantic Ocean: starscapescien...
How Did The Pacific Ocean get It’s Name?: oceanservice.n...
PHOTO SOURCES
Ocean: Thomas Edwards
Sea: Andrzej Wojciechowski
Indus River: Shahnawaz Zafar
Pillars of Gibraltar: Hansvandervliet
Atlantic Map: Athanasius Kircher
Coral Reef: William Picard
Shark: Cash Andrew Brigmond
PRONUNCIATION SOURCES
Okeanos: • How to pronounce Okean...
Sindhu: forvo.com/word...
"Dreamy Flashback"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Was hoping you would make this a video! Looking forward to more ocean names explained! Also thank you so much for the shout out it means so much as we are just starting out.
The Abyss Glad you enjoyed the video. Go make some awesome videos! :D
Working on two videos right now!
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Iʻm glad thereʻs a pinned comment here. I didnʻt see the channel when I searched.
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Is sand called sand because its between sea and land?
Hi Jesus, weird seeing you here.
Yes
Niffum4k wait yaa bc sea and land the sea a s and land has and
um.... wut
Niffum4k you opened my eyes
*face palm* The seven seas come from ancient greek literature, and they consisted of the Mediterranean sea, the Red sea, the Black sea, the Adriatic sea, the Caspian sea, the Persian gulf, and the Indian ocean. The phrase 'the seven seas' comes from the greek books listing off these bodies of water.
KickStart not everyone has an IQ above 120 coz i only have 5
EvanZ You could just look it up. You'd think Name Explain would do some simple fact-checking.
But the real question is - do you think Annie Lennox has actually been to all of them?
Garett James Who's Annie Lennox?
Well but you mentioned Indian ocean and a gulf
Even if the greeks believed they were oceans and 7 is the number for perfection, it's still wrong!
More accurate from a mathematical and geographical point is the 5 seas
From a philosophical point, "7 seas" is more correct for the things the expression stands for, of course they "built" this expression to transmit the 2nd goal but it's still objectively wrong
Indonesia got their name from Indian Ocean, and Indian Ocean got their name from India
Rahul gm bro read that again what he said
Patricius Joshua ..and Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan used to be India along with part of Afghanistan...in essence India is bigger than the map😂
Sindhu is the name of that river, but persians can not say 'sindhu', they called it Indu. Thats how Indus came and later it became India.
Patricius Joshua and India got its name from the Indus River,which got its name from the Indus River valley civilization
@@rahulgm1685 Gaandu dang se padh liya kr
The 'Indian Ocean' is called so because it surrounds Indian sub continent as mentioned in the Video. Also Probably in the ancient times, Sea vessels coming India for trade sailed through those waters to visit India and that is why they named it Indian Ocean.
Indian ocean is called as हिंद महासागर (Hind Mahasaagar).
O S Raikar no u are wrong..."Hind Mahasagar" is a very very new Hindi term coined by literal translation of the English term "Indian Ocean"....
In ancient India, the Indian ocean was called by various names like इंदुसागर(Indusaagara), सिंधुसागर(Sindhusaagara), दक्षिणसागर(Dakshinasaagara), वैकुंठसागर(Vaikunthasaagara), etc.
Thanks for Correction
I dunno I mean the Greeks used to actually call the Indian ocean the Erythrean sea in antiquity.
If sea doesn't exist, wouldn't be seahorse will be called oceanhorse?
*Hits bong* That's deep bro
Not as deep as the Oceans themselves. They're deep man.
Name Explain
explain why i slamed my head into the wall
Helldwarf They're*
Short Names you are correct. Changed accordingly.
The Greeks DID sail the Atlantic. Pytheas circumnavigated Britain in 325 BC.
basically in Scottland :)
ErrantDebris -the Carthaginians sailed right down the Atlantic coast of Africa in about 500 BC and also up into the North sea, possibly to Iceland.Their admiral was called Hanno and we have his account of the voyage in a Greek translation from the original Phoenician language.
Now my question is... Where does the "seven seas" come from? And why are they said to be seven?
people like alliteration. Eight Seas or Five Seas doesn't roll off the tongue.
I think it dates back to ancient Mesopotamia,but anyway every ancient civilization had their own 'seven seas' ...
IKR? There's like, a billion seas,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Seas
connection with 7, i'd guess
Who the hell says southern ocean?
Anna Che Pretty much anyone who has studied and/or taught Geography.
who the hell says “Antarctic” or “Austral”
@@greyjay9492 in spanish speaking countries we call it Antarctic
Hellas has named a lot of things......
Jim Souch you could say they named a HELLA a lot of things
I'm sorry
Wiktor Wach dont be sorry, that was great.
Джеiкоб 😂
It has name a hella lots of things ;)
Για σκοπιανο τον κοβω.
Love it! In my videos I focus on etymology too, it offers such a rich way of understanding history.
Fun Fact:The Pacific Ocean is larger than the landmass of every single continent and island combined.
So basically, almost every word and story comes from the Greeks or The Romans. That is so fascinating.
they were the foundation of modern European and therefore Western nomenclature. As most other cultures never bothered to name the oceans the European names stuck. The Arabs had different names for the two sides of the Indian Ocean, but ended up just having the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal instead.
Blame the renaissance and the enlightenment ages.
every culture has given it's own name to different geographical regions, but since Europe/English is dominant they all kind of chose to adapt the English nomenclature . for example the Nepali name of mt.everest is "sagarmatha" but even they don't call the mountain by that name anymore. it kind of shows you the power of English language.
I agree. England influenced the whole world, primarily because of their colonies. I hope that in the future, English will become the universal language. The younger generation doesn't really care about what language they speak, they just want to be able to communicate with others. That's why I think, languages will slowly fade away, and English will remain. Or I could be wrong, and nationalism comes back stronger than ever, lol.
Except the one where a Portuguese explorer named it~
I haven't got anything to say but enjoy this pinned comment.
Name Explain
bro, you gotta be more *PACIFIC* with the names
okay i'll leave...
Name Explain
Do an etymology video of U.S. states (especially California where its etymology has a broader origin).
Name Explain haven't watched this yet but I know it's gonna be 9/5 👌
Ok then
To sail the five oceans
That there is water beyond Gibraltar, was known way earlier than the Romans, though. The Carthaginians traded tin from the British Isles along the French and Spanish coast, and the whole concept of the Okeanos assumes that beyond the Pillars of Hercules, there was water. The Greeks just didn't have a reason to distinguish that ocean from any other.
Proud to be INDIAN🇮🇳
Always feeling proud for Indian ocean only ocean to be named after a country 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Megasthenes 350 -290 BC greek historiker ,ambassador,indian ethnographer .His lost book "indika" has been partially reconstructed. inspired ancient authors to write 80 books about India.With love.
Rahul Bhatt India is perhaps the most ancient civilization on earth.... New discoveries and new dating technique in Indus valley shows people were living in organised cities here since 8000bc....
In Somalia and Djibouti, we don't call it the Indian Ocean. We call it biyahaa bariga which means eastern water
Rahul Bhatt That's not really a bragging right, India doesn't have a valid claim on the area and a lot of languages refer to them differently.
So what, indian is there in the name .
All my childhood, I was taught that the Indian Ocean is also Indonesian ocean. Of course I grew up in Indonesia and went to Indonesian public school 🤣🤣🤣
Indian Ocean is the Only ocean in the world, Named after a Country...........
It's not, it's named after a subcontinent.
Owen Wilson
Also American ocean after America
Rahul Kumar Sorry I don't speak Dutch.
But this whole thing is false? Did you do any research as where the phrase came from. It's Greek. Referring to the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea ... etc.
Sincerelyy Eccentric this video isn’t about that phrase, that was just a narrative device to move the video along
But you are very smart. Good job.
Just because his narrative device is false doesn't mean that this whole thing is false
"Thrust me, there are more than 7 seas..."
What is the southern ocean? Never heard of that, never taught it in school, never saw it in a book. I always thought there were just the 4 oceans. I guess it's kinda pointless and doesn't matter since they're all really just one, but it's strange to me that I've never heard of this.
The Southern Ocean is a fairly new designation.The boundaries of this ocean were proposed to the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000. We only had four oceans when I was in school, too. We also only had four food groups.
For a moment I thought I was nuts, but yeah, only Pacific/Atlantic/Arctic/Indian were taught in my school when I was a kid.
In india we learn it but it is easily forgettable
@@thethrashyone I was taught that there was 4 oceans. But I thought it was BS. No way is ocean around Antarctica is not it’s own ocean. I always called it the Antarctic ocean.
I always thought the seven seas referred to seas known to the Mesopotamians - the Adriatic, the Med, the Black, the Red, the Caspian, the Arabian and the Persian Gulf. Something strikes a chord about Sinbad sailing the Seven the Seas.
Here in Russia we call the Arctic ocean "Северный Ледовитый океан", meaning "Northern Icy ocean"
And "Ледовитый" sounds almost like "Ядовитый", meaning "venomous/poisonous", so for a good chunk of my childhood I thought it was the "Northern Poisonous ocean"
Here in the Netherlands we call the Pacific Ocean ''De Grote Oceaan'' which is basically The Great Ocean
i wonder why
In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium we call it 'De Stille Oceaan' - The Silent/calm Ocean.
Thats the other name we use...but we use Grote Oceaan far more
actually we also say pacifische oceaan wich is a third name. Only very rarely used though
Oooh well I never really heard that
All oceans are called North Korean ocean
Then stop trying to blow up the oceans with your missiles!
😁😂😀
No, Chinese ocean
Kim Jong Un no it's called as trump ocean
Kim Jong Un supreme leader can't souvlaki
Indus river was itself named after hindu god of rain indra
Aditya Raghav no its Macedonian for Sindhu. Most probably named by Alexander when he invaded India
Sourav Jaiswal Indus" was derived from the Old Persian word "Hindu," from the Sanskrit word "Sindhu," which was the historic local name of the Indus River. The ancient Greeks called the Indians "Indoi," the people of the Indus.
No Indus is a curruption of the sanskrit word "Sindhu", which means "River"
it's is indhu the moon then Sindhu the river..the people lived near called similar names in diff languages like indoi..Hindu etc...The Indian ocean was also called ratnakar..
Doesnt "the seven seas" refer to the seven seas of Mythology of Greek. Like Aetrnus Sea or something?
Bipolar Warcat It’s a Greek saying,it comes from the Mediterranean,black,red,Caspian,Adriatic,Persian gulf,and Indian Ocean,the Greeks thought they were all seas at the time
Im guessing before the video:
Indian: India
Atlantic: Atlantis
Arctic: Arctic Circle
Southern: Literally south of all countries
Pacific: because why not
Southern Ocean...who says that? There are only four oceans. Soutern ocean is just southern part of Indian, Atlantic and Pacific.
That KSP music tho, I don't really know whether or not I hate it, but it keeps getting my attention every time I hear it.
I grew up learning that there were 4 Oceans. The Southern Ocean doesn't really have any barriers like at least the others sort of have.
I always never considered Antarctica to border the pacific ocean, indian ocean, or atlantic ocean at all. Ocean around Antarctica is legit too distinct from being in the pacific, atlantic, or indian ocean. I always considered it to be the “Antarctic Ocean”. And basically the Antarctic ocean in my opinion begins at the Antarctic circle.
Seas don't have to border or be defined by land. A sea can also be distinguished by currents, temperature, salinity, and a distinct ecology.
The Sargasso Sea is located in the North Atlantic Gyre, and doesn't border any land. Despite this it is classified as a sea due to its distinct currents, composition, and unique lifeforms such as the free-floating Sargassum seaweed.
in my opinion, there are 6 oceans
the artic ocean, north atlantic, south atlantic,indian ocean, pacific & antartic ocean
Happy you featured Australia
The Ocean I never heard of till I was in 8th grade was the Southern Ocean.
I never knew that was a thing before I discovered it back in 8th grade.
The seven seas refers to the seas the Greeks knew about, the Mediterranean area, like the Black Sea or the Adriatic
Magellan actually named it "mer pacifico" (excuse my Portuguese) (I'm not sure how it's spelt) but it mean 'peaceful sea' because of, like you said, the waters were so calm
"Southern ocean". You just made that up!
Hi (sorry for my bad english)
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how could you mess up 1 word that seems right enough to me?
How could YOU mess up one word?
ΚΑΛΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟ!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Southern Ocean"? Yeah right!
Never heard of it, never learnt of it in school, never read of it in books.
Danny99s I think it's an American thing I've never heard of it either
The Rite Man if I'm not mistaken it's the Antarctic Ocean, which sounds more familiar. I was baffled when I saw "southern ocean" as I am not familiar with this either
I call that Antarctic Ocean.
The Rite Man wonder where does the researcher of this video content comes from to call it Southern Ocean instead of the Antarctic ocean.
beautiful video 💜💕❤️
Why do Morocco and Monaco have similar names? (Please reply)
No I shan't reply! Oh wait... crap.
LOL. But seriously, why do they have similar names? I often get confused.
They're literally nothing alike, that's like saying Mali and Malta have similiar names, or why Gambia and Zambia are the same.
Why do Canada and Panama and banana have similar names?
Monaco comes from greek 'Monoikos' meaning 'single house'.
Morocco comes from the countries former capital city Marrakesh. Which comes from Amazigh 'amur akush' meaning 'Land of God'.
According to wikipedia.
What's with the Kerbal music?? hahahha
ROBERTO1OOO Was looking for this comment. All I could think of was Jeb floating around alone in space :P
did you mean swiming across the oceans?? hahahah
No cause in atmosphere there is no music. Only in vacuum. Makes sense right?
"Southern Ocean" wat
Southern Ocean must be a relatively new term/ocean. When I was really little, I learned there were only 4 oceans but also that the pacific was the biggest one and basically circled the world (at least half way).
Liked and shared! Always worth the watching. Thank you.
Strange I’ve always learnt there were 3 oceans, the Indian, Atlantic and the Pacific... I think because these are the oceans you can easily spot on the map. But btw... The Southern Ocean claims (almost) all of Antarctica, but that’s land, right?
its seven because the atlantic and pacific can be split in two for each. the north atlanctic, the south atlantic, the north pacific, and the south pacific
You should make a video on the origin of musical terms because those names need explaining.
You should have done seas tho, like the Mediterranean and Caspian etc.
😂😂😂 I am wondering with the name of southern ocean!!
1. Atlantic( 2nd largest)
2. Arctic ( 5th largest)
3. Antarctic( or southern ocean - 4 th largest)
4.indian (3rd largest)
5.pacific( largest)
In Serbian Pacific is called "Tihi okean" which means The Silent Ocean
I was a major in geography for some time and when we studied about oceans, one professor said for the Pacific ocean that Magellan was dead wrong because the Pacific ocean is the most turbulent of all the oceans and Magellan got really lucky with his timing. :)
We call the pacific Te moananui a Kiwa in New Zealand.
the background music is so chilling
Why you didn't explain where the saying "to sale the seven seas" comes from?
Couple of things I've heard that I'd like confirmed denied
1. That the pacific ocean was called such to encourage merchants to invest in the spice trade, as a calm sea would mean less losses to storms
2. That "The Seven Seas" refers to seven seas of a much older, perceived smaller world and includes the caspian, the black and the red sea
No copyright issues with using KSP music?
I thought the seven seas referred to the seas the pirates sailed. Don't really know what those would be, though.
Great video, as usual.
Also quite enjoy the music from KSP.
Please Explain Why Places Like These Are Named Like This. And What This Phenomenon Is Called.
Stoke-On-Trent
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Stratford Upon Avon
Southend-On-Sea
Staines Upon Thames
Thankyou.
Awesome video!
Really liked it 👍.
I was always taught 4 oceans. Never heard of the Southern Ocean.
What is that southern ocean?🙄
7 seas is the 5 Oceans which 2 of them(Atlantic and Pacific) are devided North and South.
I think we all know where the name indian ocean came from
No shit
It also refers to the medataranian and carribean where pirates would be
I have seen the ocean in 8 different countries, and those are also the only countries I've been to, but every time it's been the same ocean: the Pacific
The medieval concept of the Seven Seas has its origins in Greece and Rome. In medieval European literature, the Seven Seas referred to:
-the Adriatic Sea
-the Mediterranean Sea, including its marginal seas, notably the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea.
-the Black Sea
-the Caspian Sea
-the Persian Gulf
-the Arabian Sea (which is part of the Indian Ocean)
-the Red Sea, including the closed Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee
I feel a bit disappointed. You did not mention that in many places one learn about three or four Oceans (Indian, Atlantic and Pacific, eventually Antarctic as the fourth one), and you did not mention that “seven” was often used as a symbol of “many”, “perfect”, what explainst the saying!!
And that the World Ocean is called Panthalassa !
Panthalassa ?????That sounds exactly as i pro~nounce it: ΠΑΝΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ.
The term "Seven Seas" originally wasn't necessarily connected to "completeness". The ancient world didn't know the entire world, the Greeks, Romans, Persians all had their own "seven seas", just look it up and there should be dozens of articles explaining it.
It isn't called panthalassa, that was the ocean that surrounded pangaea.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't "The seven seas" refer to seven particular seas?
I haven't paid that much attention to the oceans and feel like the Southern Ocean just slowly snuck in and I didn't notice.
You crack me up!!! Thanks! I needed that laugh.
Is it so hard to call the man by his name? Fernão de Magalhães?
We don't translate your names, we don't call the guy «Carlos Daruine» instead of «Charles Darwin», or «Amélia Coraçãoorelha» instead of «Amelia Earhart» so why do you insist in calling the man other names?
You are right. Letm me add that the Arctic named possible because of the existence of Bears and then the asterism took it's name of minor and major bear. This is because in the most ancient years, the name of the asterism of minor bear was CHARRIOT. If you see today the Bear minor it is a perfect scheme of a charriot.
Great and informative video ✌️
I've only ever heard the southern Ocean referred to as The Antarctic Ocean
What's similarity between ocean's border and rubber ??
They're flexibel
The seven seas are the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Arctic, Atlantic, Indic, Pacific. You can also replace the Caspian Sea by the Red Sea.
There is no Southern Ocean. Antarctica is surrounded be three seas: Indic, Pacific, Atlantic.
Thumbs up it was very informative and interesting
you did a great job explaining all the names, bu there's one small discrepancy (which i see some others have mentioned). the Seven Seas doesn't refer to the oceans--it means different things depending on culture and time period (i looked it up to be certain and saw that there were more contexts for it) but in the Greco-Roman/Western sense it refers to the seven seas known to them--the Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Caspian, Arabian, and Red Seas and the Persian Gulf--with the ocean being counted separately from them. you CAN also count it as seven oceans if you divide the Atlantic and Pacific into North and South halves for each, but that's beside the point ;)
Well if you divide the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans up into north and south, you would then get the 7 seas (oceans) it talks about. So yes, that number does make sense if you divide the oceans further than you did. So there we go.
Great video. Keep up the good work.
Great video! One point about the Atlantic, Pytheas and Euthymenes of Massilia sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic in the 300s BCE. Pytheas' now lost book "On the Sea" was the first Greek text to mention Britain, Ireland, the Baltic, and the Arctic ice drift. That said, I don't remember if there was any mention of Pytheas referring to the Atlantic by that name.
4:55 This is pretty interesting. The peacefulness of the Pacific is reflected in the Welsh name for the ocean as well. It's called *Y Mor Tawel* meaning 'The Quiet Sea'.
Our textbooks state that -
1. The Indian landmass has a central location between East and West Asia.
2. The trans Indian Ocean routes which connect the countries of Europe in the West and the countries of East Asia in the East.
3. The Deccan Peninsula (part of the Indian landmass) protrudes into the Indian Ocean, helping India to establish close contact with West Asia, Africa and Europe from the western coast and the Southeast and East Asia fron the eastern coast.
4. No other country has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean as India has.
5. It is India's eminent position in the Indian Ocean which justifies the naming of an Ocean after it.
Maps divides the pacific and Atlantic into Two, north and south, ending on the equator
What maps? The equator is an arbitrary line, it doesn't actually divide anything (other than hemispheres).
PongoXBongo Google maps. It should’ve been every obvious.
I think they say seven because some people think northern and southern parts of the atlantic and pacific oceans are different oceans
Those weirdos. XD
So, am I the only person who grew up being taught there are only 4 oceans? Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian. Did people just recently start calling the waters around Antarctica the "Southern Ocean"?
I believe that there is an island in the Feroe islands that it is called Mykines,named from the ancient Mykines in Greece.
The only thing i learned was that the southern ocean is a thing
The keeper of the seven keys locks up the seven seas.
Here in India in hindi we call Indian ocean 'hind mahasagar' and pacific ocean ' prashant mahasagar'
In our schools it was taught as Antarctic ocean only,not mentioning as Southern Ocean anywhere .
Which country calls the Antarctic Ocean the Southern Ocean? UK? Others?
Still can't find the specific ocean........
Sindhu Bharat Indian subcontinent Indian tectonic plate Indian Ocean are all same 🇮🇳🇮🇳. Btw Columbus EIC Herodotus Fa Xien and others mentioned “India” quite specifically. Don’t let wannabe Arabs/Turks say otherwise 😂😂
I’m not sure, but I think you’re pronouncing Magellan wrong.
one of Hercules' quests was to bring some oxen that lived in the land beyond the sea. as the legend goes, he went to Gibraltar, made some huge pillars there as a landmark and then crossed the ocean to the west using the cup of the sun as a boat. in the land he reached he took the animals on his boat and brought them back. so according to Greek mythology, Hercules went to America.
Or the British Isles or the Canary Islands (which were seen as mythologolical at the time) or western Africa, there are many other landmasses beyond the Pillars of Hercules than just the American Continent.
India comes from a word that means far east or something similar.
we only call them by 3 names
-atlantic ocean
-indian ocean
-big ocean
That is quite a sPACIFIC origin for an ocean’s name!
What ever happened to there being 4 oceans?