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Ross Sea
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Ross Sea

Antarctic inlet of the South Pacific, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land. See also Ross Dependency and Ross Island.

The sea was named after James Clark Ross who discovered it in 1841.

It was used as a way of approach to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. The southern part is occupied by the Ross Ice Shelf, which ends seaward in an ice cliff about 650 km/404 mi long. The currents in the Ross Sea are generally from the east.
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Dr Wadham said: "There is no Bay of Whales anymore and this iceberg has the same potential to change the geography of the region.
BREAKING THE ICE; Massive 'berg splits apart from Antarctic shelf by McLEAN, JIM / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
However, because Scott so grossly misjudged the difficulties of manhauling (along with other equally damning misjudgments), he and his men were still out on Beardmore Glacier well into the onset of the Antarctic autumn and long after Amundsen and his party had successfully returned to their base at the Bay of Whales.
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