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.