Before revision: Also the nation of Ethiopia, then known as Abyssinia, is located nowhere near its namesake body of water but in the opposite eastern end of Africa which is much closer to Indian Ocean and its subset the Red Sea.The Migration of Place Names: Africa, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan 320px|Oceanus Æthiopicus in the map Guinea Propria, Nec Non Nigritiae Vel Terrae Nigorum-Aethiopia Inferior, 17431747 map with all the oceans surrounding the African continentOcean Ethiopien in a 1710 Daniel de La Feuille map of Africa History 270px|"Southern Ocean" as an alternative name for the Aethiopian Ocean in a 1700 map of Africa Ancient Greek historians Diodorus and Palaephatus mentioned that the Gorgons lived in the Gorgades, islands in the Aethiopian Sea.
After revision: (previously named Ethiopian Ocean)Also the nation of Ethiopia, then known as Abyssinia, is located nowhere near its namesake body of water but in the opposite eastern end of Africa which is much closer to Indian Ocean and its subset the Red Sea.The Migration of Place Names: Africa, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan 320px|Oceanus Æthiopicus in the map Guinea Propria, Nec Non Nigritiae Vel Terrae Nigorum-Aethiopia Inferior, 17431747 map with all the oceans surrounding the African continentOcean Ethiopien in a 1710 Daniel de La Feuille map of Africa History 270px|"Southern Ocean" as an alternative name for the Aethiopian Ocean in a 1700 map of Africa Ancient Greek historians Diodorus and Palaephatus mentioned that the Gorgons lived in the Gorgades, islands in the Aethiopian Sea.