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    The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost...
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    The Ross Sea party was a component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Its task was to lay a series of supply depots...
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    Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand. It floats in, and covers, a large southern portion of the Ross Sea and the entire...
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    000 km2 Laptev Sea – 662,000 km2 Arafura Sea – 650,000 km2 Ross Sea – 637,000 km2 Chukchi Sea – 620,000 km2 Timor Sea – 610,000 km2 North Sea – 575,000 km2...
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    from Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and includes part of Victoria Land, and most of the Ross Ice Shelf. Ross, Balleny, Scott and Roosevelt...
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    supporting group, the Ross Sea party, would meanwhile establish camp in McMurdo Sound and from there lay a series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to...
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    Stewardship Council-certified fishery is active in the Ross Sea; it is also sometimes marketed as Chilean sea bass. The Patagonian toothfish was first formally...
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  • into two groups: the Weddell Sea party consisting of the men who would attempt the crossing and their support, and the Ross Sea party whose job it was to...
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    Southern Ocean (redirect from Antarctic Sea)
    D'Urville Sea (140°E) Somov Sea (150° – 170°E) Ross Sea (166°E – 155°W) Amundsen Sea (102°20′ – 126°W) Bellingshausen Sea (57°18' – 102°20'W) Part of...
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  • pristine ecosystem fails" "Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA)". NIWA. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019. "Antarctica's Ross Sea massive marine protected...
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    James Clark Ross. Ross Island was the base for many of the early expeditions to Antarctica. It is the southernmost island reachable by sea. Huts built...
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    The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world,...
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    fishing in the Ross Sea since 1996/97. Compliance measures adopted by CCAMLR apply to all Antarctic toothfish fisheries. These include: At-sea inspections...
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    western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the...
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    the Transantarctic Mountains, which stretch from Victoria Land to the Ross Sea. The vast majority of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet...
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    century. The territory lies in West Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean portion of the Antarctic or...
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    explorer who commanded the Ross Sea party as part of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917. The Ross Sea party's mission was...
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  • Scottish clan Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Ross Sea Ross Ice Shelf Ross Dependency "Ross", a common nickname for County Roscommon Ross, County Mayo, a...
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    The Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii) is a true seal (family Phocidae) with a range confined entirely to the pack ice of Antarctica. It is the only species...
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    The Sulu Sea (Filipino: Dagat Sulu; Tausug: Dagat sin Sūg; Malay: Laut Sulu) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated...
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    Terror. It explored what is now called the Ross Sea and discovered the Ross Ice Shelf. On the expedition, Ross discovered the Transantarctic Mountains and...
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    Ethiopian waters and Red Sea brines". Water. 10 (11): 1700. doi:10.3390/w10111700. hdl:11573/1202448. Degens, Egon T.; Ross, David A., eds. (1969). Hot...
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    The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yām...
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  • fishing for Antarctic cod in the Ross Sea. The accident left the vessel holed below the waterline and sinking close to the Ross Ice Shelf and approximately...
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    Sargasso Sea (/sɑːrˈɡæsoʊ/) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. Unlike all other regions called seas, it has...
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    Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic...
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    (Bellingshausen Sea, Weddell Sea) B – longitude 90° W to 180° (Amundsen Sea, Eastern Ross Sea) C – longitude 90° E to 180° (Western Ross Sea, Wilkes Land)...
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    Expedition of 1901-1904. The mountain range stretches between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, the entire width of Antarctica, hence the name. With a total...
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  • Charles C. L; Ross, Charles K.; Yao, Tom; Petrie, Brian; DeTracey, Brendan M.; Dunlap, Ewa (2004-12-01). "The circulation, water masses and sea-ice of Baffin...
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    The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and...
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