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Weddell Sea

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Weddell Sea

Arm of the Southern Atlantic Ocean that cuts into the Antarctic continent southeast of Cape Horn; area 8,000,000 sq km/3,088,800 sq mi. Much of it is covered with thick pack ice for most of the year.

The sea indents Antarctica between the Antarctic Peninsula and Coats Land (British Antarctic Territory).
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The penguin-spotters, many of whom paid more than pounds 10,000 for their trip, have been trapped for four days on the 28-year-old Kapitan Khlebnikov in a bay near Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea.
Cruise Brits are trapped in Antarctic; PENGUINS by The Mirror (London, England)
American photographer David Schultz, 53, was approached by the playful birds each day as he hiked to the main Emperor rookery in the Weddell Sea.
P-p-p-picture a penguin by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
1958: A British team led by Vivian Fuchs completed the fi rst crossing of the Antarctic, covering 2,158 miles from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea in 99 days.
On This day by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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