Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Ross Sea (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ross Sea (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Sea (4)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large embayment of the Pacific Ocean, extending deeply into Antarctica between Cape Adare on the west and Cape Colbeck on the east. The sea is named for Capt. James Clark Ross who discovered it in 1841.
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