Who named the ocean?

1. The term Pacific Ocean first appeared in the 1620s. It was first called by the great navigator Magellan and his fleet. On September 20, 1519, the Portuguese navigator Magellan led an expedition of 270 sailors to set sail from Seville, Spain, and cross the Atlantic Ocean westward. They wanted to find a new route to India and China. On December 13, the fleet arrived at the Bay of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and rested for a while before heading south, arriving at the Port of St. Julian's in March 1520. Afterwards, internal strife broke out in the fleet. After all the efforts, Magellan suppressed the Spanish fleet and launched a rebellion, and the fleet continued southward. They braved the stormy waves and endured many hardships before reaching the southern tip of South America and entering a strait. The strait, later named after Magellan, was even more dangerous, full of strong winds, huge waves, and dangerous reefs and shoals. After another 38 days of hard work, the fleet finally reached the western end of the Strait of Magellan. However, at this time, there were only three ships left in the fleet and half of the team members were lost.

After another three months of arduous sailing, the fleet crossed Guam from South America and arrived at the Philippine Islands. There was never a single storm during this voyage, and the sea was very calm. It turned out that the fleet had entered the equatorial windless zone. The crew members who had suffered from the huge waves said happily: "This is really the Pacific Ocean!" From then on, people called this ocean between America, Asia, and Oceania the "Pacific Ocean."

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world, with an original area of ??181.3 million square kilometers. After the Antarctic Ocean was established, the area was adjusted to 155.557 million square kilometers, with an average depth of 4028 meters, the deepest Mariana Trench is 11034 meters deep. It is divided into the North Pacific and the South Pacific from the north and south of the equator. It extends from the west coast of America to the east coast of Asia and Australia. It is also the ocean with the most islands, bays, trenches and volcanic earthquakes.

2. Atlantic Ocean: The word "Atlantic" comes from the name of Atlas, the Hercules in ancient Greek mythology. It is said that Atlas lives in the Atlantic Ocean, can know the depth of any ocean, and has the power to hold up the sky. The magical power of the place. In 1845, the Geographical Society of London unanimously named it the Atlantic Ocean.

"Atlantic" is not a translated name, it is an authentic domestic and overseas place name! Since the Ming Dynasty, China has often used the Leizhou Peninsula to Kalimantan as the boundary when describing its geographical location. To the east of this line is the Eastern Ocean, and to the west of this line is the Western Ocean. This is why we often call the Japanese Orientals and the Europeans Westerners. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, Matteo Ricci came to China to meet the Chinese emperor. He said in Chinese style that he was a person from the "Atlantic" west of the "Little Western Ocean" (China's term for the Indian Ocean at that time). It can be seen that we already called Atlantic Ocean "Atlantic Ocean" at that time, and this name has not been translated in other ways.

The English name of the Atlantic Ocean is ATLANTICOCEAN, and in ancient times it was called OCEAMUSATLANTICUS. It is named after Atlas, the Hercules god in ancient Greek mythology. The god Atlas knew the depth of any ocean and supported the pillars that separated heaven from earth. Legend has it that the Atlantic Ocean is where he lived. Initially the Greeks named the mountains of northwest Africa after the god Arras, which later expanded to include the ocean beyond Gibraltar. This name was cited by the Dutch geographer Berthard Vassny (1622-1650) in 1650.

The Chinese name "Atlantic" was first recorded in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was customary to divide the East and West, roughly along the line from Leizhou Peninsula to Kalimantan Island. The west was called "Western" and the east was "Eastern." Therefore, our country used to call Europeans "Westerners" and "Westerners" to the east. The Japanese are called "Easterners". As geographical knowledge in Europe increased in the late Ming Dynasty, the Indian Ocean was renamed the "Little Western Ocean", and the sea area west of Europe was called the "Atlantic Ocean". After the introduction of Western geography and maps, translators found it difficult to translate the word ATLANTICOCEAN into Chinese appropriately, so they translated it into "Atlantic" according to custom, and it has been used to this day.

3. The Indian Ocean is located between Asia, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica. All waters are in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is the third largest ocean in the world. It is named Indian Ocean because it is located south of the Indian Peninsula in Asia.

The Indian Ocean was called the "Eritrean Sea" in ancient times. It was first seen in the book "History" written by the ancient Greek geographer Herodotus (484-425 BC) and his world map. middle. "ERYTHREA" (ERYTHREA) originally means red in Greek, and its full name means Red Sea.

The name "Indian Ocean" appeared relatively late. The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela in the late 1st century AD may have been the first person to use this name. This name was also used on the world map compiled by the Arab Ibn Haukal in the 10th century AD. The official use of the name Indian Ocean in modern times was around 1515. At that time, the map compiled by the Central European cartographer Sch?nard marked this ocean as the "Indian Ocean of the East". The word "East" here is related to the Atlantic Ocean. Relatively speaking. In 1497, the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed eastward in search of India, and collectively called the ocean he passed along the way the Indian Ocean. In the world atlas compiled by Ortelius in 1570, the name "Indian Ocean in the East" was Remove "Eastern" and simplify it to "Indian Ocean". This name gradually became accepted by people and became a common title.

4. How did the Arctic Ocean originate? Through long-term research, marine geologists believe that the formation of the Arctic Ocean is closely related to the rupture and disintegration of Laurasia in the northern hemisphere. The expansion process of the ocean floor began in the late Paleozoic Era and was mainly realized in the Cenozoic Era. It is centered on the Earth's North Pole and formed the Arctic Ocean basin through the ocean floor spreading movement of the Eurasian and North American plates. The "Mid-Arctic Ridge" found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is the center line that produces the ice ocean bottom crust. Two ridges, the Lomonosov Strait and the Mendeleev Strait (i.e., the old mid-ocean ridge), parallel to the Arctic Ocean Ridge, were also discovered on the ocean floor, indicating that the Arctic Ocean's seafloor spreading movement has carried out more than one once.