"Southern Ocean" is a universally understood term. Earth has an ocean. People like to name things so we give names to specific regions of it, such as "Pacific," "Atlantic," Indian," etc. The question was asked about James Cook's and James Clark Ross's ships' logs. Quibbling about the name of the ocean is a pointless distraction. Lots of things have been given different names by different people. Can anybody cite the specific logs that some folks have claimed (without citation!) to prove that Cook and/or Ross had to sail farther than they expected?