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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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    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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  • 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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    Most of the 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    000 sq mi) Laptev Sea – 662,000 km2 (256,000 sq mi) Arafura Sea – 650,000 km2 (250,000 sq mi) Ross Sea – 637,000 km2 (246,000 sq mi) Chukchi Sea – 620,000 km2...
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    later named the Ross Ice Shelf in his honour.[citation needed] After being forced to overwinter in Tasmania, Ross returned to the Ross Sea in December 1841...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • meaning Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan Ross Sea Ross Ice Shelf Ross Dependency "Ross", a common nickname for County Roscommon Ross, County Mayo,...
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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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    Sea is, according to the testimony of all who have sailed through its berg-filled waters, the most treacherous and dismal region on Earth. The Ross Sea...
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    the Russians was the Fimbul ice shelf. Ross passed through what is now known as the Ross Sea and discovered Ross Island (both of which were named after...
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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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    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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    Ian; Upshur, Ross (April 2011). "What have we learned? A review of the literature on children's health and the environment in the Aral Sea area". International...
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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 Weddell Gyre and Balleny Gyre. The Ross Gyre is located north of the Ross Sea, and rotates clockwise. The gyre is formed by interactions between the...
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    Adin David Ross (born October 11, 2000) is an American internet personality and online streamer. He is known for his collaborations with celebrities and...
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    toothfish is distributed around the Antarctic continental shelf and in the Ross Sea, generally south of 60°S. Both species are benthopelagic as adults. The...
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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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    Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-; Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-]) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western...
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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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  • 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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