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Mythbusting 'the place where two oceans meet' in the Gulf of Alaska

Posted by kallena on Friday January 03, 2014 @11:04PM
from the alaskadispatch.com dept.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/mythbusting-place-where-two-oceans-meet-gulf-alaska

Informally dubbed “the place where two oceans meet,” the explanation for the photo is a simple one, though there are many misconceptions about it, including that catchy title. In particular on popular link-sharing website Reddit, where users have on multiple occasions erroneously attributed the photo’s location as “Where the Baltic and North Sea meet” and the two types of water as being...

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