Everything about The Weddell Sea totally explained
The
Weddell Sea is part of the
Southern Ocean. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of
Coats Land and the
Antarctic Peninsula. Much of the southern part of the sea, up to
Elephant Island, is permanent ice, the
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The sea is contained within the two overlapping
Antarctic territorial claims of
Argentina, (
Argentine Antarctica) and
Britain (
British Antarctic Territory), and also resides partially within the territorial claim of
Chile (
Antarctic Chilean Territory). At its widest the sea is around 2,000 km across, in area it's around 2.8 million km².
The sea is named after the British sailor
James Weddell who entered the sea in 1823 as far as 74° S. It was first widely explored by the
Scot William S. Bruce over 1902-04.
It was in this sea that
Shackleton's ship, the
Endurance was trapped and crushed by ice in 1915.
The ice shelves which used to extend roughly 3900 square miles (10,000 km²) over the Weddell Sea have completely disappeared by 2002.
It is believed that the break-up of
Gondwana started in the Weddell Sea.
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