Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean either part of the Atlantic or omitted. Splitting the Atlantic and Pacific into north and south and adding the Southern Ocean returns the list to seven. Detailed reckonings of the divisions of the world ocean into oceans and seas is not limited to lists of seven. For example, the International Hydrographic Organization recognizes many marginal seas; some saltwater lakes and the freshwater Sea of Galilee also have "sea" in their names. See also Sapta Sindhu Clime Four Seas Four continents Karshvar Jambudvīpa List of seas Roof of the World Rudyard Kipling, who titled a volume of poems The Seven Seas (1896) and dedicated it to the city of Bombay. Atlantic Ocean References Oceans Nautical terminology Seas