The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica, and north through the Pacific Ocean.

At the southernmost tip of Africa lies the Cape of Good Hope, where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet but never mix. A few miles away, in a township built to isolate the mixed-race population ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... "The solution is that another ocean has to open, and that may well be the Indian, or even an ocean that may split Africa and Eurasia." ...

It’s one of the five oceans that cover nearly three-quarters of the Earth. The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic. Although the water looks calm and still from outer space ...