What is Weddell Sea? A report all about Weddell Sea for homework/assignment The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is the King Haakon VII Sea. Much of the southern part of the sea, up to Elephant Island, is permanent ice, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The sea is contained within the two overlapping Antarctic territorial claims of Argentina, (Argentine Antarctica) and Britain (British Antarctic Territory), and also resides partially within the territorial claim of Chile (Antarctic Chilean Territory). At its widest the sea is around 2,000 km across, in area it is around 2.8 million km². Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: NASA's_DC-8_Flying_Over_the_Weddell_Sea.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea Diving_weddell_seals.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea 460px-Antarctic-seas-en.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea USCGC_Glacier_nearing_the_ice_pier.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Weddell_Sea_Oceanographic_Expeditions Antarctica_Weddell_Sea_region_relief_location_map.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_Weddell_Sea_region_relief_location_map.png Shackleton_Endurance_Aurora_map2.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition

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