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Ross Sea

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Ross Sea, arm of the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica Antarctica (ăntärk`tĭkə, –är`tĭkə), the fifth largest continent, c.
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, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross, a British explorer. Ross Island with Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, is in the western part of the sea; Roosevelt Island is in the east. The Ross Sea's southern extension is the Ross Ice Shelf, a great frozen area whose 400-mi (644-km) seaward side is the source of huge icebergs. The

Bay of Whales, the ice shelf's best known inlet, lasted for c.50 years and was the site of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's base for his trek to the South Pole in 1911; Little America, a U.S. base, was located nearby.

McMurdo Sound, on the western side of Ross Sea, is usually free of pack ice in late summer; it has been the most important staging point for exploration and scientific investigation.


Ross Sea
a large arm of the S Pacific in Antarctica, incorporating the Ross Ice Shelf and lying between Victoria Land and the Edward VII Peninsula

Ross Sea [′rȯs ′sē]
(geography)
Arm of the South Pacific Ocean off Antarctica.


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To determine when such conditions occurred along the Ross Sea area of Antarctica, he and his colleagues carbon-dated Adelie bones, feathers, and eggshells from 21 active and abandoned nesting sites in that region,
The Aurora, departing from Australia, would travel through the Ross Sea to the opposite shore of the Antarctic continent, where a team would establish camp.
Stock and the others made their discovery after taking several cruises in the mid-1990s in the northern Ross Sea off the Antarctic coast.
 
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