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The Ross Sea is a deep bay
Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
 of the Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean south of 60th parallel south latitude....
 in Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
 between Victoria Land
Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Sea and on the west by Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the Victoria of the United Kingdom....
 and Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast....
. It was discovered by James Ross
James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross , was a British Royal Navy and List of explorers. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Edward Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica....
 in 1841.






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The Ross Sea is a deep bay
Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
 of the Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean south of 60th parallel south latitude....
 in Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
 between Victoria Land
Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Sea and on the west by Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the Victoria of the United Kingdom....
 and Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast....
. It was discovered by James Ross
James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross , was a British Royal Navy and List of explorers. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Edward Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica....
 in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island
Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound....
 with the Mt. Erebus
Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano on Earth. With a summit elevation of , it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount Terror ....
 volcano
Volcano

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or Crust , which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface....
, in the east Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island, Antarctica

Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about 130 km long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km wide and about 1 E9 m? in area, lying in the E part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica....
. The southern part is covered by the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
. Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
 started his South Pole
South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface....
 expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales
Bay of Whales

The Bay of Whales is an iceport indenting the front of Ross Ice Shelf just northward of Roosevelt Island, Antarctica.A natural ice harbor which generally forms here, it served as the base site for Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole, 1911, the Richard E....
, which was located at the shelf. In the west of the Ross sea, McMurdo Sound
McMurdo Sound

The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound encompasses 2,500 miles of shoreline which opens to the Ross Sea to the north....
 is a port which is usually free of ice during the summer. The southernmost part of the Ross Sea is Gould Coast
Gould Coast

The Gould Coast is that portion of the coast along the east margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between the west side of Scott Glacier and the south end of Siple Coast ....
, which is approximately two hundred miles from the Geographic South Pole.

All land masses in the Ross Sea are claimed by Britain and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 to fall under the jurisdiction of the Ross Dependency
Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand. It is defined by a Circular sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160th meridian east to 150th meridian west, and terminating at latitude 60th parallel south....
, but few non-Commonwealth nations recognize this claim.

A 10 meter (32.8 feet) long colossal squid
Colossal Squid

The Colossal Squid , sometimes called the Antarctic or Giant Cranch Squid, is believed to be the Cephalopod size squid species. It is the only known member of the genus Mesonychoteuthis....
 weighing 495 kilograms (1,091 lb) was captured in the Ross Sea on February 22, 2007.

See also

  • Beaufort Island
    Beaufort Island

    Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea. It is the northernmost feature of the Ross Archipelago, lying 21 kilometres north of Cape Bird, Ross Island....
  • Iceberg B-15
    Iceberg B-15

    Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. With an area of over 11,000 km?, it was larger than the island of Jamaica....
  • McMurdo Sound
    McMurdo Sound

    The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound encompasses 2,500 miles of shoreline which opens to the Ross Sea to the north....
  • Ross Dependency
    Ross Dependency

    The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand. It is defined by a Circular sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160th meridian east to 150th meridian west, and terminating at latitude 60th parallel south....
  • Ross Ice Shelf
    Ross Ice Shelf

    File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
  • Ross Island
    Ross Island

    Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound....


External links

  • Glausiusz, J., 2007, Discover Magazine.
  • Gunn, B., nd, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Including the Ross Sea Dependency, the Sub-Antarctic Islands and sea, up to New Zealand from the Pole.
  • Hansen, K., 2007, Geotimes.
  • International Polar Foundation ,2007, SciencePoles website.
  • Locarnini, R.A., 1995, Quarterdeck, vol. 1, no. 3.(Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.)