Deucaledon Ocean

Proper noun

the Deucaledon Ocean

1. (obsolete) A historical ocean which comprises roughly the northernmost parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
   • Southerne bounds towards England are the Rivers Tweede and Solwey, on the North is the Deucaledon Ocean, on the West the Irish, on the East the German, other parts the Ocean and the German Sea doe compasse.1635, Gerhard Mercator, translated by W. S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniæ., Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world.
   • The Parish of Reay in the shire of Cathness hath to the [North] the great Deucaledon Ocean, to the East the Parish of Thurso. To S. East parish of Haukrig to the south the parish of Kildonan in the shire of Sutherland. To the W. and N. West the parish of Far.1726 June, Walter MacFarlane, “Description: Parish of Reay in Cathness”, in Arthur Mitchell, editor, Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter MacFarlane (Publications of the...